https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/ New laws, launches, tax changes and enacted bills on gambling in Texas. en-us Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-09-01:SB 3070 takes effect, abolishing the Texas Lottery Commissio Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT SB 3070, 89th Leg., R.S. (2025) https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-09-01:SB 3070 makes the lottery-courier ban statutory, superseding Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT New Tex. Gov't Code § 466.318 makes it an offense to sell a lottery ticket to a Texas player online or by phone/app, or to arrange for someone else to buy one for a player. — SB 3070, 89th Leg., R.S. (2025), § 37 (adding Gov't Code § 466.318) https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-09-01:Texas Lottery imposes 100-ticket-per-transaction purchase li Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT SB 3070, 89th Leg., R.S. (2025), § 32 (adding Gov't Code § 466.255) https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-06-02:SB 28, which would have statutorily banned lottery couriers, Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT Passed the Senate unanimously on 2025-02-27 but received no House floor vote; its policy goal was achieved instead through SB 3070. https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-06-02:SB 517, which would have defined "eight-liner" and created a Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT Passed the Senate on 2025-05-08 but received no House committee vote. https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-06-02:89th Texas Legislature adjourns without advancing sports-bet Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-04-23:Lotto.com sues Texas Lottery Commission over courier ban rul Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-02-27:Texas Senate unanimously passes SB 28 to statutorily ban lot Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2025-02-24:Texas Lottery Commission adopts emergency rule banning third Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT Prompted DraftKings/Jackpocket to suspend Texas courier operations. https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2023-06-02:88th Texas Legislature adjourns without Senate vote on House Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2022-06-15:U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 for tribes in Ysleta del Sur Pu Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:00:00 GMT Held that gaming activities merely regulated (not flatly prohibited) under Texas law are governed by IGRA rather than the Restoration Act's stricter standard; vacated and remanded the Fifth Circuit's contrary ruling on the Alabama-Coushatta bingo hall. — Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas, 596 U.S. 232 (2022) https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2022-01-01:Speaking Rock Entertainment Center (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo) b Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2016-03-01:FanDuel suspends paid daily fantasy operations in Texas foll Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2016-01-19:AG Paxton issues Opinion KP-0057 concluding paid DFS leagues Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:2016-01-01:Texas state court rules Alabama-Coushatta electronic bingo h Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:1999-01-01:Federal court orders closure of Alabama-Coushatta entertainm Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:00:00 GMT Followed a 1999 state lawsuit; the tribe's casino-style entertainment center had operated roughly nine months. https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:1998-01-01:AG Opinion DM-466 argues the Penal Code amusement/eight-line Thu, 01 Jan 1998 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:1992-05-29:Texas Lottery begins ticket sales Fri, 29 May 1992 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:1991-08-26:Texas voters approve constitutional amendment authorizing a Mon, 26 Aug 1991 12:00:00 GMT https://gamblingatlas.org/states/texas/#timeline event:TX:1987-08-16:Ysleta del Sur and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Te Sun, 16 Aug 1987 12:00:00 GMT Restored federal recognition for both tribes but barred gaming "prohibited by the laws of the State of Texas," seeding decades of litigation over tribal gaming scope. — Pub. L. 100-89