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LouisianaSB 3252026 Regular SessionSenate

GAMING: Excludes certain persons from participating in sports wagering. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Mike Reese (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary B

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

New betting bans and review rights

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana law requires Gaming Control Board rules for gaming exclusion lists, including sportsbooks and mobile betting. Listed people are barred from retail sportsbooks and from playing or operating mobile wagering. Sports-betting exclusions cover people already excluded from gaming establishments and people who threaten someone involved in a sporting event. Those threats must relate to sports gaming and can happen before, during, or after the event. The Board can also exclude people it finds threaten state interests, the law's purposes, or effective sports-betting regulation. General gaming rules cover career or professional offenders and people with criminal convictions, as defined or specified by the Board. They also cover people whose presence harms state or gaming interests. Examples include suspected cheating, lost gaming licenses or privileges, safety threats, documented disruptions, court-ordered bans, and pending gambling or gaming-integrity charges. The Board and enforcement division can place people on the lists. Exclusion cannot rest solely on skill or on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, or disability. Unless someone requests exclusion, officials must give notice in person or by certified mail. Listed people can seek removal but must prove the exclusion criteria do not apply. They have a right to a review hearing within 30 days after officials receive their petition. If the exclusion rule does not apply, the division must notify all licensees, operators, and permit holders. Knowingly entering or trying to enter gaming premises after exclusion without Board clearance carries up to six months in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Operators face sanctions for willfully failing to exclude listed people; repeated willful failures can bring license, permit, or contract suspension or revocation. These exclusion provisions do not apply to licensees under Louisiana's video draw poker law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mike Reese

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 101 • No: 0

House vote • 5/12/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/30/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 491.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/20/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  8. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/18/2026House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  11. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/12/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    4/1/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    3/31/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/30/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/25/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/24/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    2/27/2026Senate

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