The bill clarifies and strengthens agencies' authority to restrict prediction-market-related purchases—improving procurement control and legal clarity—while imposing new participation limits and compliance costs on federal employees and contractors.
Federal agencies and federal employees: clearer statutory authority to restrict purchases or contracts involving prediction markets, reducing legal ambiguity for procurement decisions.
Federal employees and government contractors: new restrictions may limit participation in or use of prediction markets or prediction-market-linked contracts, curbing certain workplace or contractual activities.
Federal agencies, federal employees, and government contractors: increased administrative burden and compliance costs to update procurement rules and monitor covered transactions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds a new chapter to title 5 intended to prohibit covered transactions involving prediction market contracts but does not include definitions or enforcement text.
Prohibits certain transactions involving prediction market contracts by adding a new chapter to title 5 of the U.S. Code and updates the title 5 table of sections. The text as provided creates the chapter placement and short title but does not include the operative statutory language that defines what transactions are covered, how the prohibition would be enforced, or any exceptions.
Introduced March 25, 2026 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress March 25, 2026