As New Jersey prepares its ‘nuclear option’ for legal sports betting, one of the state’s federal representatives is taking another run at lifting the US betting ban.

On Thursday, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. introduced the Gaming Accountability and Modernization Enhancement Act of 2017, aka the GAME Act. The bill seeks to repeal the federal PASPA sports betting prohibition that is preventing Pallone’s home state from proceeding with its plan to offer legal betting at Atlantic City casinos and state racetracks.

The main objective of the Act is to prevent the feds from imposing civil or criminal penalties on any person or licensed entity engaged in retail or online betting that their home state has declared lawful. The Act’s definition of ‘bet or wager’ includes sports betting, lotteries, daily fantasy sports and fantasy eSports.

The Act also requires betting-friendly states to enact sufficient consumer protections – data integrity, problem gambling safeguards, a method for redress if these protections aren’t followed, etc. – to ensure bettors don’t get the shaft. The Federal Trade Commission would have a role to play in ensuring these protections are sufficient if a company offered wagering to residents of more than one state.