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Utah's gambling law currently defines gambling as risking something of value on a contest, game, or event where the outcome depends on chance. An earlier version of this bill added "proposition bets" to that definition, defining them specifically as bets on individual actions or statistics during athletic competitions, such as wagering on how many yards a player will rush. The current version broadens that definition, defining a "proposition bet" more generally as a gambling bet placed on any individual action, statistic, occurrence, or non-occurrence, without limiting it to sports or athletic events. This means bets on specific individual events or outcomes — not just sports-related ones — would be explicitly classified as illegal gambling under Utah law, rather than potentially falling into a legal gray area.