Indiana Online Casino Legislation Moves to Full House Floor After Clearing Committee
Posted on: January 29, 2025, 10:03h.
Last updated on: January 29, 2025, 10:16h.
Indiana online casino legislation moved to the full House floor on Tuesday after gaining committee support.

Indiana Rep. Ethan Manning’s (R-Cass) House Bill 1432 would allow the state’s commercial casinos to partner with or run up to three iGaming platforms. Each individually branded skin would be allowed to operate internet slot machines and interactive table games, including poker.
On Tuesday, HB1432 passed the House Public Policy Committee with a 9-2 vote. The committee’s vote wasn’t necessarily a surprise, as Manning chairs the Republican-controlled Public Policy panel. With the committee’s blessing, the Indiana iGaming measure moves to the full House floor for further consideration.
Hoosiers are already playing casino games online,” Manning said in reference to offshore, unregulated casino websites. Those platforms operate from foreign markets and target players in jurisdictions where internet gambling isn’t permitted.
“This is happening already. Let’s authorize it, let’s regulate it, and let’s see huge tax revenue,” Manning added.
Indiana is home to 13 commercial casinos. Indiana is the seventh-richest commercial gaming state behind only Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and Ohio.
Indiana Lottery Games
Along with allowing people aged 21 and older physically located within the state’s borders to play slots and tables from home, Manning’s bill would expand the Indiana Lottery to include online instants. With each iGaming skin costing a one-time fee of $500K and gross gaming revenue (GGR) generated by the online casinos subject to a state tax ranging from 22% to 30%, depending on annual win, Indiana stands to receive significantly more money from its regulated gaming industry should it move online.
The Indiana Legislative Services Agency’s Office of Fiscal and Management Analysis projects that iGaming could earn the state upwards of $200 million annually by its third year in operation. An online lottery could add as much as $94 million.
However, the office thinks the state’s tax benefit from brick-and-mortar and riverboat casinos could decline anywhere between $29 million to almost $58 million, as some players might take their business online.
Lobbyists with Churchill Downs, which operates the Terre Haute Casino Resort, opposed HB1432 because they fear iGaming will reduce in-person play. Penn Entertainment, which operates two properties in the Hoosier State—Hollywood Lawrenceburg and Ameristar East Chicago—also opposed the iGaming measure after the Public Policy Committee passed another bill that would allow slot-like electronic gaming machines at charitable groups, veterans associations, and bars and restaurants.
Howard Glaser, the global head of government affairs and legislative counsel for Light & Wonder, which supplies many of the slot machines and table games found on the Indiana casino floors, spoke in support of iGaming. Along with providing consumer protections and generating new tax revenue, Glaser says a legal, regulated iGaming market would help rid illegal online casinos, including controversial sweepstakes platforms, that are “inundating the state.”
Indiana Tax Programs
In addition to the one-time $500K licensing charge, each online gaming platform would need to pay the state an annual fee of $50K. The yearly payment would go toward responsible gaming programs and problem gambling services.
Most of the remaining state tax revenue generated from iGaming would go to the Indiana General Fund.
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