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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2497: Relating to gambling regulation and wagering, concerning cashless wagering, forfeiture and withholding of certain gaming winnings, sports wagering, occupational licenses, limitations on gambling game licenses, and simulcasting licensure and taxation, providing penalties and making penalties applicable, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill concerns gambling regulation and wagering. Division I of the bill concerns cashless wagering and allows a person to access a cash account through a personal electronic device for purposes of cashless wagering on the wagering area of a licensee under Code chapter 99D or gaming floor of a licensee under Code chapter 99F. Division II of the bill relates to the forfeiture and withholding of certain gaming winnings. The division prevents the state and entities licensed by the state racing and gaming commission from being held liable for any claim, action, or inaction which may arise from processes related to a person voluntarily excluded from pari-mutuel wagering, advance deposit wagering, internet fantasy sports contests, advance deposit sports wagering, gaming floors and sports wagering areas of an excursion gambling boat, wagering areas, and gaming floors and sports wagering areas.

Sponsors

State Government committee

Cost

Cost: up to $16,600

There would be an annual decrease of approximately $3,000 to $4,000 to the General Fund due to the loss of a subset of the administrative penalties against licensees. The average State cost per offense for a Class D felony ranges from $9,100 to $16,600.

Senate subcommittee · named March 9, 2022

  • Sen. R. Smith
  • Sen. Tony Bisignano (D) · tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Craig Johnson (R) · craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 10 against

For: Boyd Gaming-Peninsula Gaming LLC & Dubuque Diamond Jo & Diamond Jo Worth; Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC.; Great River Entertainment; Penn National Gaming/Ameristar; Q Casino; Sports Betting Alliance

Against: City of Cedar Rapids; Concerned Women For America of Iowa; Iowa Annual Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Catholic Conference; Linn County Board of Supervisors; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; The Humane Society of the United States; VALOR Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 21, 2022Filed in the House
  2. March 1, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  3. March 2, 2022Passed the House, 71–28
  4. March 3, 2022Arrived in the Senate
  5. March 9, 2022Senate subcommittee named: R. Smith, Bisignano and Johnson
  6. March 16, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  7. May 23, 2022Passed the Senate, 35–11
  8. May 23, 2022Passed the House, 60–23
  9. June 1, 2022Sent to the Governor
  10. June 17, 2022Signed into law
  11. June 22, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2497