Online Casino Bill Tracker: State iGaming Legislation in 2025 and 2026
Blackjack reaches a new state only when a legislature votes it there, so the honest way to answer “when will my state get it” is to read the bills.
The short answer
- Reviewed: Aug. 25, 2026. Rebuilt from primary sources once a month.
- Enacted: Maine LD 1164 only. Law on Jan. 11, 2026. No operator is live.
- Closest next: Virginia. Both chambers passed a bill, then failed to pass from conference on March 14, 2026.
- Stuck structurally: Maryland needs a ballot question, New York needs a line in the executive budget.
- Going the other way: five states put a sweepstakes casino ban on the books between May 2025 and March 2026.
- Rule of thumb: a sports betting bill is not a casino bill.
What Counts as a Bill on This Page
Every bill number here was checked against the legislature’s own page, and that link sits in each section so you can confirm it yourself.
As of Aug. 25, 2026, reviewed monthly
This page is rebuilt from primary sources once a month. The maintenance section below gives the cadence and shows how to check any row yourself. Anything that could not be confirmed on an official source was left out. Treat everything here as a dated snapshot, not live data.
This tracker lists the online casino and internet gaming measures filed in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, who carried them, what they would have done and exactly where each stopped. For the current legal picture rather than the pending one, start with our guide to online blackjack sites and the state-by-state index.
Authorization bills
Measures that would license internet casino gaming, the category where blackjack becomes a legal product. Fourteen of them are verified below across eight states.
Bans and restrictions
Measures that prohibit or restrict something, usually dual-currency sweepstakes platforms. Seven of these appear in the second table, and five of them are now law.
Procedural vehicles
Referendum questions and implementation bills. Maryland is the clearest case: the enabling statute does nothing unless the ballot question passes alongside it.
A sports betting bill is not a casino bill
Keep this distinction throughout. Roughly 40 jurisdictions take sports wagers, while seven run real-money internet casinos where blackjack is a licensed product. Our overview of federal and state law covers why those markets are governed separately.
Master Table: Verified iGaming Authorization Bills
Scan the bill number, the state, the status and the last dated action. Everything below reflects the legislature’s own record as of Aug. 25, 2026.
| State | Bill | Sponsor | What it would do | Status | Last action and date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | LD 1164 (HP 769) | Rep. Ambureen Rana | Tribal-exclusive internet gaming under the Gambling Control Unit | Enacted, Public Law chapter 538 | Became law without the governor’s signature, Jan. 11, 2026 |
| Virginia | SB 118 (2026) | Sen. Mamie E. Locke | Lottery Board licenses casino operators; $500,000 fee; 20 percent tax | Failed | Failed to pass from conference, March 14, 2026 |
| Virginia | HB 161 (2026) | Del. Marcus B. Simon | Same framework plus a $2 million platform fee and a lottery hold harmless fund | Failed | Failed to pass from conference, March 14, 2026 |
| Virginia | SB 827 (2025) | Sen. Mamie E. Locke | Internet gaming; $1 million application fee; 15 percent tax | Failed | Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology, 12-0, Jan. 22, 2025 |
| Maryland | SB 761 (2026) | Sen. Ron Watson | Puts internet gaming to voters as a gaming expansion referendum | Withdrawn | Withdrawn by sponsor, March 13, 2026 |
| Maryland | SB 885 (2026) | Sen. Ron Watson | Licenses internet gaming and online bingo if the referendum passes | Failed | Budget and Taxation hearing set for March 11, 2026; no vote taken |
| Maryland | SB 340 (2025) | Sen. Ron Watson | Internet gaming authorization and implementation, referendum-contingent | Failed | Budget and Taxation hearing, Jan. 29, 2025; no vote taken |
| New York | S 2614 | Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. | Authorizes interactive gaming and interactive lottery gaming | In committee | Referred again to Racing, Gaming and Wagering, Jan. 7, 2026 |
| Illinois | SB 1963 | Sen. Cristina Castro | Internet Gaming Act; 25 percent privilege tax | In committee | Referred to Assignments, Feb. 6, 2025 |
| Illinois | HB 3080 | Rep. Edgar Gonzalez Jr. | House Internet Gaming Act; up to three platforms per licensee | In committee | Re-referred to Rules, March 21, 2025 |
| Ohio | SB 197 | Sen. Nathan H. Manning | Legalizes and taxes internet gambling; open market | In committee | Referred to the Select Committee on Gaming, May 14, 2025 |
| Ohio | HB 298 | Reps. Brian Stewart and Marilyn John | Closed iGaming market for existing operators; bans sweepstakes | In committee | Referred to Finance, May 21, 2025 |
| Indiana | HB 1432 (2025) | Rep. Ethan Manning | Various gaming matters; the 2025 online casino vehicle | Dead | Recommitted to Ways and Means under House Rule 126.3, Jan. 29, 2025 |
| Wyoming | HB 0162 (2025) | Rep. Robert Davis | Interactive gaming, blackjack named, under the Gaming Commission | Dead | Died in committee, March 3, 2025 |
Fourteen bills, one law
Fourteen verified bills across eight states, and exactly one of them became law. That ratio is the story of the past two sessions.
The law behind the bills
Read what is already on the books before you read what somebody proposed.
Maine: The Only State That Finished
The only internet casino authorization enacted anywhere in 2025 or 2026, and still not a place you can play.
LD 1164, “An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming,” sponsored by Rep. Ambureen Rana, is the only internet casino authorization enacted anywhere in 2025 or 2026. The Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee split on April 24, 2025, its majority recommending ought to pass as amended, and the House enacted the bill 87-60 on June 17, 2025.
Then it stalled in an unusual way. Gov. Janet Mills held the bill on July 8, 2025 rather than signing or vetoing it, one of dozens held after adjournment. She announced on Jan. 8, 2026 that she would let it stand, and it became law without her signature on Jan. 11, 2026 as chapter 538 of the public laws. The Maine Gambling Control Board had urged a veto, arguing tribal exclusivity shuts out the state’s two commercial casinos. She let it through anyway, saying the activity was better regulated than ignored.
Authorization is not availability
The statute lives at Title 8, chapter 39 of the Maine Revised Statutes, sections 1401 through 1417, and the Gambling Control Unit is still writing the rules. No adopted internet gaming rule appears in its file as of this review, and no operator is live. Anyone reading that Maine “has online casinos” should check the Maine page and the Gambling Control Unit first.
Enacted, Jan. 11, 2026
Became law without the governor’s signature as chapter 538 of the public laws.
Initial rulemaking notice, May 6, 2026
The Gambling Control Unit file for Chapter 70-84, Internet Gaming, opens with comments due June 5, 2026.
Public hearing notice, July 15, 2026
A notice of public hearing dated July 15, 2026 appears in the same file.
Second comment deadline, July 27, 2026
The second comment window closes and the rule remains unadopted.
Still not live, Aug. 25, 2026
No adopted internet gaming rule as of this review, and no licensed operator taking Maine players.
- Bill page: Maine Legislature, LD 1164
- Rulemaking file: Gambling Control Unit, internet gaming rulemaking
- Governor: Statement of Jan. 8, 2026
Law on the books is not a licensed site
The gap between an enacted bill and a regulated operator is where most bad advice lives.
Virginia: Two Chambers Agreed, Then Could Not Agree
Virginia came closer than any state since Rhode Island. Both chambers passed an internet gaming bill in 2026, and both needed a second try.
| Bill | Action | Vote | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 118 (Locke) | Defeated on the Senate floor | 19-20 | Feb. 16, 2026 |
| SB 118 (Locke) | Revived on reconsideration, then passed the Senate | 38-0, then 19-17 | Feb. 16, 2026 |
| SB 118 (Locke) | Passed the House with a General Laws substitute | 70-29 | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 118 (Locke) | Senate rejected the House substitute | 0-40 | March 2026 |
| HB 161 (Simon) | Defeated in the House | 46-49 | Feb. 17, 2026 |
| HB 161 (Simon) | Reconsidered, then passed the House | 67-30 | Feb. 17, 2026 |
| HB 161 (Simon) | Passed the Senate with a substitute | 21-17 | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 161 (Simon) | House rejected the Senate substitute | 0-94 | March 2026 |
| SB 118 and HB 161 | Failed to pass from conference on the day the General Assembly adjourned | No agreement | March 14, 2026 |
Six conferees were named on March 4, 2026: Locke, McPike and Pillion for the Senate, Simon, Krizek and Austin for the House. They never closed the gap. The disagreement was money, and both substitutes started from the same tax rate and the same license fee.
| Version | Tax and fees | Where the money goes |
|---|---|---|
| Senate substitute | 20 percent of adjusted gross internet gaming revenue; $500,000 license fee | 95 percent of the tax to the Modern Public Education Fund, three percent to a Gaming Regulatory Fund, two percent to problem gambling treatment |
| House substitute | The same 20 percent tax and $500,000 license fee, plus a $2 million fee per gaming platform | Raises problem gambling treatment to five percent and carves six percent into an Internet Lottery Hold Harmless Fund until Jan. 1, 2037 to offset cannibalized lottery sales |
| SB 827, the 2025 attempt | $1 million application fee; 15 percent tax | Never reached the floor; General Laws and Technology passed it by indefinitely, 12-0, with a letter on Jan. 22, 2025 |
Virginia’s market picture explains why that fight was not cosmetic. One year after a committee killed the idea 12-0 without a floor vote, the same idea passed both chambers.
Maryland: A Referendum Problem, Not a Vote-Counting Problem
Sen. Ron Watson has filed an internet gaming package three sessions running and the arithmetic never changes.
Two bills in one session, or nothing
Maryland cannot expand commercial gaming by statute alone; it needs statewide voter approval. Watson therefore has to pass a referendum question and an implementation framework in the same session, and the framework only functions if the question carries.
In 2025 he filed SB 340, “Internet Gaming, Authorization and Implementation,” which drew a Budget and Taxation hearing on Jan. 29, 2025, no vote, and no crossover. In 2026 he split the package into SB 761, “Expansion of Commercial Gaming, Internet Gaming Referendum,” and SB 885, “Internet Gaming and Online Bingo, Authorization and Implementation.” Both were first read in Budget and Taxation on Feb. 6, 2026 and set for a March 11 hearing. The committee canceled the referendum bill’s hearing on March 10, Watson withdrew SB 761 on March 13, and with the ballot question gone the implementation bill died at crossover.
Two structural facts make Maryland harder than its neighbors. The referendum must clear the same 90-day session as the enabling statute to reach the November ballot. And the state’s brick-and-mortar operators have opposed the expansion rather than lobbied for it, the opposite of the alignment that carried Michigan and Pennsylvania. See the Maryland page for what is legal there today.
New York: A Bill With No Governor Behind It
The chairman of the committee cannot get his own iGaming bill out of his own committee.
Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., who chairs the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, is the sponsor of S 2614, which would amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law to authorize interactive gaming and amend the tax law for interactive lottery gaming. Its entire action history is two lines: referred to Racing, Gaming and Wagering on Jan. 21, 2025, and referred there again on Jan. 7, 2026 when the second year of the session began.
The block is the governor’s office, not the Senate
Gov. Kathy Hochul left internet casino gaming out of the executive budget, and in New York an expansion of this size travels in the budget or it does not travel. Addabbo stopped pushing before the 2026 session ended in June, while the state’s attention went to the downstate casino licenses.
Note the pairing, though: the same senator who cannot move an authorization bill pushed a prohibition bill through both chambers and onto the governor’s desk in the same period. New York players are covered on the New York page.
Illinois: Filed, Assigned, Parked
Companion Internet Gaming Act bills, filed in February 2025, and not one floor vote between them.
Sen. Cristina Castro and Rep. Edgar Gonzalez Jr. filed companion Internet Gaming Act bills in February 2025, the third time in five years the pair has tried. Both would let land-based casinos and racetracks run internet casino and poker platforms, with a 25 percent privilege tax deposited into the State Gaming Fund, age and location verification requirements, procurement diversity goals and a limit on home rule units.
Neither has had a floor vote. SB 1963 was referred to Assignments on Feb. 6, 2025 and has not moved since. HB 3080 was assigned to the Gaming Committee on March 4, 2025 and re-referred to Rules on March 21, which in Illinois practice is where bills go to wait. Because the 104th General Assembly runs through January 2027, both bills are technically alive and practically dormant. More at Illinois blackjack.
A labor clause written into the text
The Gaming Board could not license an operator that had cut its workforce by 25 percent or more since Feb. 28, 2020.
Ohio: Two Rival Bills and a Governor Who Says No
Ohio filed the two most different iGaming bills in the country within eight days of each other in May 2025, and the gap between them froze the issue.
| Item | SB 197 | HB 298 |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsor | Sen. Nathan H. Manning | Rep. Brian Stewart and Rep. Marilyn John |
| Title or thrust | “Legalize, tax internet gambling; make other Gambling Law changes” | Closed iGaming market for existing operators; bans sweepstakes-style games outright |
| Introduced | May 13, 2025 | May 20, 2025 |
| Referred | Senate Select Committee on Gaming, May 14, 2025 | House Finance, May 21, 2025 |
| Market structure | Open market that also pulls in online lottery and horse racing wagering | Closed market limited to Ohio’s existing casino and racino operators |
| Tax rate | Higher | Lower |
| Committee vote | None recorded | None recorded |
The date that matters is January 2027
Gov. Mike DeWine opposes internet gambling expansion and his term ends in January 2027. The 136th General Assembly runs through the end of 2026, so both bills survive on paper into the lame duck. Current options are on the Ohio page.
Indiana: A Committee Win Erased in One Afternoon
The bill won its committee and lost its session on the same day, in the very next line of the action list.
Indiana’s 2025 vehicle was HB 1432, “Various gaming matters,” authored by Rep. Ethan Manning with Reps. Cory Criswell, Justin Moed and Steve Bartels. Manning chairs House Public Policy, and on Jan. 29, 2025 the committee adopted an amend-do-pass report.
House Rule 126.3
The very next entry in the official action list, the same day, reads: recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3. That rule sends fiscal bills to the budget committee, which never gave it a hearing. House leadership confirmed there would be no floor vote.
The 2026 session went the other way. Rather than revive authorization, Indiana passed a prohibition: HB 1052, “Various administrative law matters,” also authored by Manning and sponsored by Sen. Ron Alting, defines a “sweepstakes game” and sets civil penalties for conducting one, alongside horse racing commission and voluntary exclusion changes. The governor signed it March 12, 2026 as Public Law 153. Player details are on the Indiana page.
Wyoming: Small State, Narrow Windows
The most blackjack-specific bill in this tracker, and no interactive gaming bill filed at all in 2026.
Rep. Robert Davis’s HB 0162, titled simply “Interactive gaming,” defines an interactive game to name “poker, blackjack or any other card, slot or gambling game typically offered in a casino,” and it would have let the Wyoming Gaming Commission license operators already running internet gaming in at least three states. Cosponsors included Reps. Landon Brown, JT Larson and Rueben Tarver and Sens. Eric Barlow, Stephan Pappas and Wendy Schuler.
The status page is short and final: received for introduction Jan. 14, 2025, referred to House Travel on Jan. 20, no report prior to the Committee of the Whole cutoff on Feb. 7, died in committee March 3, 2025 under House Rule 5-4. No interactive gaming bill was filed at all in the 2026 budget session, so the action moved to the interim committee. See Wyoming blackjack.
| Date | Location | What the record shows |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | Cheyenne | The interim Select Committee on Gaming met |
| July 30, 2026 | Casper | Took up gambling drafts including one on online casinos and sweepstakes, and declined to advance them |
| Oct. 5 and 6, 2026 | Rock Springs | Next meeting, and the last realistic chance to produce a committee bill for 2027 |
The Other Direction: Sweepstakes Bans and Tightened Statutes
While authorization bills stalled, prohibition bills sailed. Five states put a sweepstakes casino ban on the books between May 2025 and March 2026, usually by lopsided or unanimous votes.
| State | Bill | Sponsor | What it does | Outcome | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | SB 555 | Sen. Vince Ricci | Revises gambling laws; reaches dual-currency sweepstakes play | Chapter 626 | All sections effective Oct. 1, 2025 |
| Connecticut | SB 1235 | General Law Committee | Lottery and gaming package; bars unlicensed casino-style sweepstakes | Public Act 25-112 | Signed June 24, 2025 |
| New Jersey | A 5447 | Assemblymen Clinton Calabrese, Sterley Stanley, William Sampson IV, John Burzichelli and John McKeon | Prohibits the sweepstakes model of wagering; new penalties | P.L. 2025, chapter 128 | Approved Aug. 15, 2025 |
| New York | S 5935-A | Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. | Prohibits online sweepstakes games and revenue from illegal markets | Chapter 605 of 2025 | Signed Dec. 5, 2025 |
| Indiana | HB 1052 (2026) | Rep. Ethan Manning | Defines a sweepstakes game and sets civil penalties for conducting one | Public Law 153 | Signed March 12, 2026 |
| Maryland | SB 860 (2025) | Sen. Paul Corderman | Would ban online sweepstakes and revenue from illegal markets | Died in the House | Passed the Senate 47-0 on March 12, 2025 |
| Louisiana | SB 181 (2025) | Sen. Adam Bass | Provides relative to prohibitions in gaming | Vetoed | Veto message received June 12, 2025 |
Montana went first. SB 555, carried by Sen. Vince Ricci of Senate District 27 and requested by Sen. Gayle Lammers, became chapter 626 with all sections effective Oct. 1, 2025. It is why a sweepstakes site that once took Montana players now geoblocks them. Connecticut folded its ban into the Department of Consumer Protection’s annual recommendations bill: SB 1235 became Public Act 25-112 on June 24, 2025, with the prohibition effective Oct. 1, 2025. The same act authorized wagering on boxing and mixed martial arts and opened the door to multistate gaming compacts, which matters for a state as small as Connecticut.
New Jersey’s A 5447 passed the Assembly 69-10 with one abstention and the Senate 34-5 on June 30, 2025, after substitution for the identical S 4282, and was approved Aug. 15, 2025 as chapter 128. It hands enforcement to both the Division of Gaming Enforcement and the Division of Consumer Affairs, which matters because New Jersey already runs a licensed internet casino market. New York’s S 5935-A passed the Senate 57-2 on June 11, 2025, was substituted for A 6745-A, and was signed Dec. 5, 2025 as chapter 605.
A ban is not automatic either
Maryland’s SB 860 passed the Senate 47-0 on March 12, 2025 and died without a vote in House Ways and Means. Louisiana’s SB 181 did better still, clearing the Senate 39-0 on April 29, 2025, the House 99-0 on June 2 and concurrence 38-0 on June 3, and was vetoed anyway; the veto message reached the Louisiana Senate on June 12, 2025.
Sweepstakes, social and real money
Five new state laws changed what a dual-currency site may offer you and where it may offer it.
Legislative Mechanics That Decide the Outcome
Most of the bills above did not lose a vote. They ran out of procedural room.
Odd-year-only legislatures
Montana, Nevada, North Dakota and Texas hold regular sessions only in odd-numbered years. The Nevada Constitution, article 4, section 2, says sessions “shall be biennial, and shall commence on the 1st Monday of February following the election of members of the Assembly,” capped at 120 consecutive days. A bill that misses that window in Nevada waits two full years, and Montana’s 2025 session was its only bite before 2027, which is why SB 555 was drafted as an omnibus gambling revision rather than a narrow ban.
Constitutional amendment states
South Dakota is the cleanest example. Article III, section 25 of its constitution says the Legislature “may not authorize any game of chance, lottery, or gift enterprise, under any pretense, or for any purpose whatever,” subject to narrow carve-outs for charitable games, a state-owned lottery and video lottery, and casino games “within the city limits of Deadwood.” A statute authorizing online blackjack would simply be void. It needs an amendment referred to and approved by voters, the same two-step used in 2020 to add sports wagering in Deadwood.
Referendum requirements
Maryland sits between the two. No constitutional convention is needed, but expansion of commercial gaming must be ratified at the ballot box, which is why Watson’s package always pairs a referendum bill with an implementation bill. Miss either half and the session is over, as it was on March 13, 2026.
Budget-session introduction thresholds
Wyoming holds a general session in odd-numbered years and a budget session in even-numbered years, and in a budget session a non-budget bill must clear a supermajority introduction vote before anyone debates its merits. HB 0021, a gaming proceeds bill, failed introduction 25-37. HB 0110, a school finance bill, drew 41 yes votes to 21 no votes and still failed. A bill can win a clear majority and never be read.
Short sessions, crossover and conference
Virginia’s constitution, article IV, section 6, has the General Assembly meeting on the second Wednesday in January, with even-year sessions capped at 60 days and odd-year sessions at 30, extendable by a two-thirds vote of each house. Sixty days proved enough to pass two competing iGaming bills and not enough to reconcile them. Maryland’s crossover deadline, March 23 in 2026, kills bills that have not passed their originating chamber. Illinois and New York carry bills across a two-year session, which keeps a bill alive without giving it momentum.
Governors
Three outcomes here turned on one person. Mills held LD 1164 for six months and let it pass. Hochul kept iGaming out of the budget and the New York bill never moved. Louisiana’s governor vetoed a bill no legislator had voted against. Counting committee votes without counting the governor produces bad predictions.
How This Page Is Maintained
Bill status changes between reviews, sometimes within hours. Checking a row yourself takes about a minute.
Current review completed Aug. 25, 2026
This tracker is reviewed once a month. Every bill number, sponsor name, vote count, status and date above reflects the legislature’s own record as of Aug. 25, 2026. A committee can report a bill, a chamber can substitute new language, a sponsor can withdraw a measure, and a governor can sign or veto on any business day.
Open the legislature link
Click the link in that state’s section. Every link here points to an official legislature, regulator or constitutional source.
Find the action or status list
That list is authoritative; the summary is not, because summaries usually describe the introduced version rather than the substitute that passed.
Read the last dated entry
“Referred to committee” with a date from a prior session means nothing has happened. “Failed to pass from conference” means the bill is finished.
Look for a chapter or public law number
If it passed, that number is the marker that it is law rather than merely passed.
Check whether the regulator has adopted rules
Maine is the live example: enacted January 2026, rules still in progress, no operators licensed.
Bills that could not be confirmed on an official legislature page were left out, including several widely reported measures whose numbers matched no record we could open.
While your state is still arguing
Nothing in this tracker changes what you can legally do today, so start with the current picture.
Outlook: Who Is Actually Next
On the evidence here, Virginia is the most likely next state and it is not close.
| State | Where it stands | What has to happen next |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | The only state where both chambers have passed an internet gaming bill; the remaining dispute is a hold harmless fund and a reenactment clause, not whether to legalize | Reconcile the two versions when the General Assembly convenes on the second Wednesday in January 2027 for the 30-day version of its session: less time to negotiate, but a much shorter bill list competing for floor time |
| Maine | Already law | Rulemaking, licensing and launch, so watch the Gambling Control Unit rather than the Legislature |
| Ohio | Both bills have industry backing and the sitting governor is opposed | A merged SB 197 and HB 298 under a new administration after his term ends in January 2027, though the frameworks differ on market structure, not just tax rate |
| Indiana | A chairman willing to author the bill and a fiscal committee that will not hear it | A leadership decision, which resolves faster than a constitutional one |
| Illinois | Bills filed and a record of expanding gambling since 2019, yet nothing has left Rules or Assignments in 18 months | A path out of Rules or Assignments while the 104th General Assembly still sits |
| Maryland | Stuck structurally | A ballot question passed inside a 90-day session, alongside its implementation bill |
| New York | Stuck structurally | A line in the executive budget |
| Wyoming | A long shot that keeps surfacing | The 2027 general session, which at least removes the supermajority introduction barrier |
Genuinely in play
- Virginia: both chambers passed a bill in 2026 and the fight is over money, not legalization.
- Maine: already enacted; the remaining work is rulemaking, licensing and launch.
- Ohio: two funded frameworks waiting on a change in the governor’s office in January 2027.
- Indiana: a leadership problem, and those resolve faster than constitutional ones.
- Illinois: bills filed, a record of expanding gambling since 2019, and nothing moving.
Written about as close, and are not
- Texas: cannot act before 2027 and has no casino authorization at all.
- California: tribal governments have shown no appetite for an online framework since the 2022 sports betting propositions failed.
- Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina: no commercial casinos to license.
- South Dakota: would need a constitutional amendment, not a statute.
In each of those, an offshore site calling itself “regulated” is not describing anything a state issued, a difference set out in our comparison of offshore and licensed operators.
One closing note unrelated to legislation
Anyone whose play has stopped feeling like a choice can reach a free, confidential counselor on 1-800-697-3738. Our responsible gambling hub lists the state-run programs behind it.
Support that does not depend on your state’s session
These tools work the same whether your legislature passed a bill or not.
Where Every Claim on This Page Comes From
Primary sources only. If a link below does not support a line above, the line is wrong and we want to know.
Every claim above rests on the legislature, regulator and constitutional pages linked in each section, including the South Dakota Constitution, article III, section 25, the Nevada Constitution, the Virginia Constitution, article IV, section 6, and the Wyoming 2026 budget session bill list. None of it is legal guidance; statutes and rules change, and a lawyer in your state is the right person to ask about your own situation.
Reviewed Aug. 25, 2026. This tracker is rebuilt from primary sources once a month, and every status above is a dated snapshot rather than live data. Back to the state-by-state index.
