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To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit the listing of contracts relating to war, death, and similar activities.
Summary
The DEATH BETS Act would amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit registered commodity exchanges from listing or accepting for trading certain types of contracts. The bill would ban contracts or agreements based on excluded commodities that involve, relate to, or reference terrorism, assassination, war, or similar activities, as determined by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The bill would also prohibit contracts that involve, relate to, or reference an individual's death or could be construed as correlating closely to an individual's death. These prohibitions would apply to agreements, contracts, transactions, and swaps based on excluded commodities.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA)
Actions (2)
- Mar 10, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. · senate
- Mar 10, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 10, 2026
Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit the listing of contracts relating to war, death, and similar activities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Discouraging Exploitative Assassination, Tragedy, and Harm Betting in Event Trading Systems Act” or the “DEATH BETS Act”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LISTING OF CONTRACTS RELATING TO WAR, DEATH, AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES.
Section 5c of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 7a-2) is amended by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Prohibition on Listing of Contracts Relating to War, Death, and Similar Activities.—A registered entity shall not list for trading or accept for clearing on or through the registered entity any of the following:
“(1) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based on an excluded commodity (as defined in section 1a(19)(iv)) that involves, relates to, or references terrorism, assassination, war, or any similar activity, as determined by the Commission.
“(2) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based on an excluded commodity (as defined in section 1a(19)(iv)) that involves, relates to, or references an individual’s death or could otherwise be construed as correlating closely to an individual’s death.”. <all>
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