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HB0299 • 2025
Online sports wagering amendments.
AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing Wyoming tribes to conduct online sports wagering as specified; amending geolocation system requirements; and providing for an effective date.
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Did Not Pass
The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.
- Sponsor
- Representative Posey
- Last action
- 2025-02-27
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2025
Plain English Breakdown
Details about permit issuance were included in the candidate explanation but removed because they are not supported by the official source material.
Amendments to Online Sports Wagering
The bill allows Wyoming tribes to conduct online sports betting and changes rules about where people can place bets.
What This Bill Does
- Allows the Northern Arapaho tribe and the Eastern Shoshone tribe of the Wind River Reservation to offer online sports wagering.
- Requires sports betting companies to use a system that shows where users are located when they make bets.
- Excludes people on Indian lands from having to be in Wyoming to place bets, as defined by federal law.
Who It Names or Affects
- Wyoming tribes
- Sports betting companies and users
Terms To Know
- Qualified gaming entity
- A company or tribe that can offer online sports wagering in at least three U.S. states under state rules.
- Geolocation system
- A technology used to track the physical location of a person making an online bet.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill did not pass in its current session.
- It is unclear if and when similar legislation might be reintroduced.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes where people can place online sports bets in Wyoming.
- People on Indian lands are allowed to make online sports wagers even if they are outside of Wyoming.
- The exact impact and implementation details of this change are not fully explained by the amendment text alone.
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Standing Committee • Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural R
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment changes how online sports wagering vendors can get permits in Wyoming and clarifies requirements for tribes to operate gaming locations.
- Changes the requirement for vendor permits from amending existing rules to requiring specific conditions for issuance.
- Updates a reference number in the bill text.
- Adds exceptions that allow certain operations by tribes without disqualifying them as qualified gaming entities.
- Modifies permit issuance criteria, specifying requirements and fees for sports wagering vendors and two specific Wyoming tribes.
- The amendment's technical changes may be hard to understand fully without additional context about the existing bill text.
Bill History
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2025-02-27
Senate
S COW:Failed 12-12-7-0-0
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2025-02-25
Senate
S Placed on General File
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2025-02-25
Senate
S06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
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2025-02-18
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel
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2025-02-10
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2025-02-10
House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 45-14-3-0-0
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2025-02-07
House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-02-06
House
H COW:Passed
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2025-02-04
House
H Placed on General File
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2025-02-04
House
H06 - Travel:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
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2025-01-30
House
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
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2025-01-28
House
H Received for Introduction
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2025-01-27
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Current Bill Text
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25LSO-0666
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0666
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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0299
Online sports wagering amendments.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Posey, Chestek, Larsen, L and Yin and Senator(s) Nethercott
A BILL
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AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing Wyoming tribes to conduct online sports wagering as specified; amending geolocation system requirements; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
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102(b)(i)(F) are amended to read:
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Definitions.
(a)
As used in this chapter:
(x)
"Qualified gaming entity" means
any of the following:
(A)
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gaming entity that offers online sports wagering through computers, digital platforms or mobile applications in not less than three (3) jurisdictions in the United States pursuant to a state regulatory structure;
(B)
The Northern Arapaho tribe of the Wind River Reservation;
(C)
The Eastern Shoshone tribe of the Wind River Reservation.
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102.
Online sports wagering regulation; rulemaking.
(b)
The commission shall promulgate rules to implement this chapter. The rules the commission promulgates shall establish standards and procedures for online sports wagering and associated sports wagering systems. The rules shall include:
(i)
Governance of the conduct of online sports wagering and the system of wagering associated with online sports wagering, including all of the following:
(F)
A requirement for each sports wagering operator to use a geolocation system to ensure
that
all of the following:
(I)
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patron making an online sports wager is physically present in the state when making the wager unless otherwise authorized by the commission;
(II)
All online sports wagering transactions shall be initiated and received or otherwise made by a patron who is physically located within the state, excluding patrons physically located on Indian lands as defined by 25 U.S.C. § 2703(4).
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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