VirginiaVirginia Lottery; internet gaming authorized, definitions, penalties, effective clause.
What it does
Virginia Lottery; casinos; internet gaming authorized; penalties. Authorizes internet gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board. The bill requires a casino gaming operator that intends to conduct internet gaming to submit a separate notice of intent to the Director of the Virginia Lottery for each internet gaming platform that it intends to offer accompanied by a $2 million platform fee that is to be deposited into the Internet Gaming Platform Fee Holding Fund for the purpose of funding start-up costs and other costs associated with the implementation and creation of a gaming commission.
More detail
The bill permits the Board to issue an internet gaming operator license to a casino gaming operator that submits an application on forms approved by the Board, meets certain qualifications, and pays an initial licensing fee of $500,000. The tax rate is set at 20 percent of an internet gaming operator's adjusted gross internet gaming revenue with five percent allocated to the Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund, six percent allocated to the Internet Lottery Hold Harmless Fund until January 1, 2037 and the remaining 89 percent before January 1, 2037, and 95 percent after January 1, 2037, allocated to the general fund.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 14Failed to Pass from conferenceLatest
- Mar 14No further action taken
- Mar 6Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB161)
- Mar 4Senate Conferees: Locke, McPike, Pillion
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: fail.Lower
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Insist & Request R. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 4Conferees appointed by Senate
- Mar 4House Conferees: Simon, Krizek, Austin
- Mar 4Conferees appointed by House
- Mar 4House acceded to request
- Mar 4Senate requested conference committeeMinor
- Mar 4Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N 0-A)Major
- Mar 4Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 94-N 0-A)
- Mar 4Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (3/4/2026 1:16 pm)
- Mar 4Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 17-N 0-A)Passed Senate
- Mar 4Engrossed by Senate - committee substituteMajor
- Mar 4Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- Mar 4Read third timeMinor
- Mar 4Committee substitute printed 26109035D-S1Major
- Mar 3Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 3Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Mar 3Rules suspended
- Mar 3Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 3-N 1-A)Minor
- Feb 25Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws and Technology. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 18Referred to Committee on General Laws and TechnologyMinor
- Feb 18Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 18Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (2/18/2026 10:16 am)
- Feb 17Passed House (67-Y 30-N 0-A)Passed House
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: fail.Lower
- Feb 17Passed by temporarily
- Feb 17Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by House
- Feb 17Read third time and defeated by House (46-Y 49-N 0-A)Major
- Feb 16Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB161)
- Feb 16Engrossed by House - committee substituteMajor
- Feb 16committee substitute agreed toMajor
- Feb 16committee substitute rejected
- Feb 16Read second timeMinor
- Feb 15Read first timeMinor
- Feb 13Committee substitute printed 26108000D-H2Major
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Reported from Appropriations with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 13Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N)Minor
- Feb 13House subcommittee offered
- Feb 13Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)Major
- Feb 13Assigned HAPP sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural ResourcesMinor
- Feb 6Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (2/6/2026 10:58 am)
- Feb 5Committee substitute printed 26107031D-H1Major
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 5Reported from General Laws with substitute and referred to Appropriations (13-Y 8-N)Minor
- Feb 3Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (5-Y 4-N)Major
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3House subcommittee offered
- Feb 3Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB161)
- Jan 21Assigned HGL sub: ABC/GamingMinor
- Jan 7Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (1/7/2026 3:21 pm)
- Jan 6Referred to Committee on General LawsMinor
- Jan 6Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101135DIntroduced