Key takeaways
- Wyoming's Select Committee on gaming voted in early October to sponsor bill 27LSO-0098, first reported by WyoFile.
- The bill would add online casinos and online sweepstakes casinos to Wyoming's definition of professional gambling, which is already illegal there.
- It also targets the supplier chain: geolocation, payments, hosting, platform, content, data, and advertising providers that serve sweeps operators.
- Penalties: up to 3 years in prison, up to a $3,000 fine, or both.
- Earliest it can move is January 12, 2027, the first day of the 2027 session.
What the bill actually does
Rather than writing a new sweeps statute, 27LSO-0098 amends an existing one. Wyoming already outlaws professional gambling; the bill folds real-money online casinos and sweepstakes casinos into that definition. It also defines "representative of value" broadly enough to cover single-currency, dual-currency, multi-currency, free-play, promotional-play, and sweepstakes-entry systems, which closes the usual definitional escape hatches.
The supplier-chain language is the part operators will read twice. The bill reaches third-party providers working with sweeps casinos, from payment processing and geolocation to game content and advertising services.
How it compares
Pennsylvania's House Bill 2801 is queued for January as well, but it targets only dual-currency gameplay and carves out social gaming. Wyoming's draft is broader on both the product definitions and the supply chain.
What this means for players
Nothing changes in Wyoming today: the bill cannot be considered before January 12, 2027. But the pattern of 2026 is that these bills move. Eleven states already restrict sweeps play, and our state availability page tracks each change as it lands.