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Sweepstakes casinos in Louisiana
Current status
Enforcement activity
Regulators have taken tracked enforcement action against operators here.
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- Sweeps Coins (SC) redemption
- Contested, regulators are acting
- Gold Coin (GC) free play
- Generally not targeted. 116 of 121 operators we track are recorded as not accepting Louisiana
- Minimum age
- 18+
- In effect since
- Aug 1, 2026
- Affiliate / promoter liability
- Yes. State action reaches promoters
- Latest action
- Aug 1, 2026: effective
PRIMARY-SOURCE NOTE
Louisiana's gambling by computer crime now names dual-currency sweepstakes outright
What the law does
Louisiana's gambling by computer offense, R.S. 14:90.3, now describes the sweepstakes model in its own words: a game or promotion reachable online or on a phone that uses a dual-currency system, lets the player exchange that currency for a prize, cash or a chance at one, and simulates any form of gambling is gambling by computer1. A player located in the state who commits the offense faces a fine of up to five hundred dollars, up to six months, or both1. Whoever conducts it as a business faces up to one hundred thousand dollars, up to five years with or without hard labor, or both1. Subsection F reaches platform providers, geolocation providers, gaming content suppliers, promoters, endorsers and media affiliates who knowingly support it, and doubles their fine when a person under twenty-one is involved1. Each wager and each promotion counts as its own violation1.
What has happened since
Those words arrived through HB 883, which the Governor signed as Act 182 on May 15, 2026, with an effective date of August 1, 20263. Our event history for Louisiana does not list that act yet. It opens with "LGCB cease-and-desist letters to 42 sweepstakes recipients" on June 17, 2025 and the attorney general opinion of July 2, 2025, then records the racketeering bill: signed May 11, 2026, in effect August 1, 20265. That bill, HB 53, became Act 48 and lists gambling by computer and gambling by electronic sweepstakes device among the crimes that count as racketeering activity under R.S. 15:1352(A)4. The compiled text of R.S. 15:1352 we read on September 28, 2026 still ends that list before those entries6. We record 116 tracked operators as not accepting Louisiana players, and we hold no exit record for the state.
What is still open
Act 182 also created R.S. 27:19.1, under which the attorney general or the Gaming Control Board chairman may send a cease and desist notice giving the recipient no more than ten days to stop, and the attorney general must publish a list naming every recipient2. A merchant payment processor or platform provider is deemed to know that every person and web address on that list is engaged in gambling by computer1. Our record holds no notice under the new section and no dated action after August 1, 2026. Is the list live, and who is on it? Our 2025 entries cannot say: both link to the text of R.S. 14:90.7, not to the letters or the opinion, so the operators the letters named are not on our record7.
- Enforcement search
- The events we track for Louisiana are the Gaming Control Board letters, the attorney general opinion, and the racketeering bill's signing and start date. None is a prosecution, a court order or a cease and desist notice on the attorney general's new public list.
- Question still open
- Whether the attorney general has started the public list of cease and desist notices the rewritten law requires, and which operators the Gaming Control Board letters named, is not shown by any document on our record.
Sources for this note
- La. R.S. 14:90.3, Gambling by computer, as amended (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- Act 182 of the 2026 Regular Session (HB 883), enrolled text (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- HB 883 (2026 Regular Session) bill history (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- Act 48 of the 2026 Regular Session (HB 53), enrolled text (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- HB 53 (2026 Regular Session) bill history (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- La. R.S. 15:1352, racketeering definitions, compiled text (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
- La. R.S. 14:90.7, Gambling by electronic sweepstakes device (Louisiana State Legislature) accessed Sep 28, 2026
Sources rechecked 2026-09-28. Next scheduled review 2026-12-28.
What the law says
R.S. 14:90.7: up to $20,000 and/or up to 5 years (with or without hard labor). HB 53 makes 14:90/90.3/90.7/90.8 racketeering predicates: RICO exposure up to 50 years hard labor / $1M fines for operators, affiliates, processors.
How we got here
Every tracked event for Louisiana, newest first.
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Aug 1, 2026
In effect effective
Sweepstakes gambling offenses become Louisiana RICO predicates under R.S. 15:1352(A).
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May 11, 2026
Enacted signed
HB 53 (2026 RS) adds R.S. 14:90, 90.3, 90.7, and 90.8 to the racketeering predicate list in R.S. 15:1352(A): RICO exposure up to 50 years hard labor / $1M fines for operators, affiliates, and processors.
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Jul 2, 2025
Enforcement ag statement
Attorney General opinion concluding dual-currency sweepstakes play falls within the state's gambling-by-computer and electronic-sweepstakes-device prohibitions.
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Jun 17, 2025
Enforcement cease and desist
Louisiana Gaming Control Board issued cease-and-desist letters to 42 operators and platforms under La. R.S. 14:90.7 (gambling by electronic sweepstakes device) and 14:90.3 (gambling by computer).
Operators and Louisiana
Because of Louisiana's status, we don't list or link operator promotions for this state.
116 of the 121 operators we track are recorded as not accepting Louisiana players, and 56 of those records cite the operator's own terms.
5 operators we track do not list Louisiana among excluded states in the terms we last read, dated June 10, 2026 to July 7, 2026.
Operator families whose every tracked brand is recorded as not accepting Louisiana: B-Two Operations Limited, Kinetix Ventures, Inc., Mamba Limited, MW Services Limited, Realplay Tech Inc, UTech Solutions LLC and VGW (Virtual Gaming Worlds).
How this classification was reached
Show the record, the citation and the method
What the Louisiana classification rests on
- Source date
- August 1, 2026 (effective)
- Last human review
- June 13, 2026
- Effective date
- August 1, 2026
- Basis of classification
- statutory and enforcement-based
Where the operator counts come from
Of the 5 records that do not exclude Louisiana, 4 cite the operator's own terms or rules and 1 is inferred because the terms do not list Louisiana. Of the 116 exclusion records, 46 cite the operator's own terms or rules, 10 come from a backfill of the operator's terms, 1 comes from the operator's site configuration and 59 come from our bulk backfill without a terms citation.
Citation as stored
La. R.S. 14:90.7 (gambling by electronic sweepstakes device), 14:90.3 (gambling by computer); LA AG opinion 2025-07-02; LGCB cease-and-desist to 42 recipients 2025-06-17; HB 53 (2026 RS) enacted 2026-05-11, eff. 2026-08-01 (R.S. 15:1352(A) RICO predicates).
Source documents
Primary sources on file
Method
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Louisiana questions
Are sweepstakes casinos legal in Louisiana?
Regulators have taken tracked enforcement action against operators here. Authority: La. R.S. 14:90.7, in effect since August 1, 2026.
Does Louisiana's gambling by computer law name dual-currency sweepstakes?
Yes. As rewritten by Act 182 of 2026, R.S. 14:90.3(B) says any online game or promotion that uses a dual-currency system letting the player exchange the currency for a prize, cash or cash equivalents, or a chance to win one, and that simulates any form of gambling, is gambling by computer.
Which operators accept Louisiana players?
116 of the 121 operators we track are recorded as not accepting Louisiana players, and 56 of those records cite the operator's own terms. Trust Score leaderboard →
This page is information, not legal advice. Laws and thresholds change quickly, so confirm with the operator and your state attorney general before depositing, or consult a lawyer. Last verified June 13, 2026. Send a correction.