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SB5621 • 2026

Sporting event raffles

Addressing electronic raffles at live sporting events.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Senator Stanford, Senator Kauffman, Senator Chapman, Senator Trudeau, Senator Saldaña, Senator Muzzall, Senator Ramos, Senator Conway, Senator Wagoner, Senator Braun, Senator Nobles
Last action
2026-01-12
Official status
S Business, Trade
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Sporting event raffles

Sporting event raffles

What This Bill Does

  • Sporting event raffles

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-12 Senate

    Due to Senate committee reorganization, referred to Business, Trade & Economic Development.

Official Summary Text

Sporting event raffles

Current Bill Text

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AN ACT Relating to electronic raffles at live sporting events; 1
and amending RCW 9.46.0277. 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3
Sec. 1. RCW 9.46.0277 and 2009 c 133 s 1 are each amended to 4
read as follows: 5
"Raffle," as used in this chapter, means a game in which tickets 6
bearing an individual number are sold for not more than one hundred 7
dollars each and in which a prize or prizes are awarded on the basis 8
of a drawing from the tickets by the person or persons conducting the 9
game, when the game is conducted by a bona fide charitable or 10
nonprofit organization, no person other than a bona fide member of 11
the organization takes any part in the management or operation of the 12
game, and no part of the proceeds thereof inure to the benefit of any 13
person other than the organization conducting the game. "Raffle" does 14
not include an electronic raffle conducted at a live sporting event 15
where the total prize amount is 50 percent of the gross gambling 16
receipts collected.17
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S-0642.1
SENATE BILL 5621
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Senators Stanford, Kauffman, Chapman, Trudeau, Saldaña, Muzzall,
Ramos, Conway, Wagoner, Braun, and Nobles
Read first time 01/31/25. Referred to Committee on Business,
Financial Services & Trade.
p. 1 SB 5621