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Sweepstakes laws in Texas

We found no Texas statute, 2025 or 2026 bill, or state enforcement action specific to online sweepstakes casinos in the sources checked on October 3, 2026.

Disclosure: this site's publisher, Luck Incorporated LLC, operates Chance Infinite, one of the apps in these databases. Its entry is built from its own documents under the same rules as every other entry. This is reference information, not legal advice; official rules and statutes control.

Last verified October 3, 2026. On October 16, 2026 an automated check re-opened 8 of its 9 sources and found no change. Every line below cites a document; numbers in brackets point to the source list.

Status
Nothing specific found
Enforcement actions on record
0
Ranked free apps open to residents
6 of 6
Sweepstakes-casino brands and Texas
0 exclude it, 0 limit it, of 18 tracked

Rules for any sweepstakes in Texas

  • Lottery definition (Tex. Penal Code section 47.01(7)): Defines a lottery as "any scheme or procedure whereby one or more prizes are distributed by chance among persons who have paid or promised consideration for a chance to win anything of value", whatever it is called. [S4]
  • Mail sweepstakes rules (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code sections 622.051, 622.052, 622.101, 622.202 and 622.205): [S5]
    What the rule requires

    Chapter 622 applies only to sweepstakes conducted through the mail whose most valuable prize is worth $50,000 or more. Such a sweepstakes may not require an order or purchase to enter or automatically enter purchasers, and section 622.101(a) bars an entry mechanism that is connected to ordering, is not identical for all entrants, and lacks the printed statement beginning "Buying Will Not Help You Win." The Attorney General may sue for civil penalties of $5,000 to $50,000 per violation; there is no private right of action.

Free sweepstakes apps open to Texas residents

Our ranked apps, by what each one's own official rules say about Texas. Chance Infinite is operated by this site's publisher.

AppOur rankTexas
Chance Infinite1, 81/100Open
Coinnect2, 71/100Open
Prizes by GAMEE3 (tied), 54/100Open
Winsome Rewards3 (tied), 54/100Open
PCH+5, 51/100Open (app listed unavailable)
PCH Lotto6, 48/100Open (app listed unavailable)

Sweepstakes casinos and Texas

What the 18 sweepstakes-casino brands in our database say about Texas in their own documents. These lists give no grade; some of these brands pay SweepstakeReport a commission through the links on their fact sheets. We do not judge whether any brand may operate in Texas, and documents change often.

207 sweepstakes casinos' own terms do not exclude Texas: see the counts for Texas.

Regulator

Texas Attorney General, Consumer Protection (Lotteries and Sweepstakes)

Notes

Read the 3 research notes
  • SB 517 of the 89th Legislature (2025) passed the Senate on May 8, 2025 and was received in the House the same day, its last recorded action (S1). Its engrossed text would have amended the Penal Code definitions of "gambling device" and "thing of value" (adding gift cards and other representations of value) and raised several gambling offenses to third-degree felonies (S2). The text does not mention the internet, online play or sweepstakes. Trade press (S6, secondary) suggested its definitions could affect online sweepstakes platforms. We do not count it as a sweepstakes-casino bill.
  • The legislature's GAMBLING subject report for the 89th Regular Session lists 19 measures (S3). None of their captions mentions sweepstakes or online play, and the introduced texts of HB 487, HB 2996 and HB 4132 that we opened do not contain the words sweepstakes, internet or online (S7, S8, S9).
  • Our crackdown timeline does not mention Texas.

What we could not establish

  • We did not obtain bill lists for the 2025 called (special) sessions; the subject-report URLs we tried for them returned no data.
  • We found no Texas Attorney General action aimed at online sweepstakes casinos in a search of texasattorneygeneral.gov on 2026-10-03.
  • statutes.capitol.texas.gov now serves a JavaScript application; statute text was retrieved from the legislature's tcss.legis.texas.gov resource files.

Common questions

Does Texas have a law on online sweepstakes casinos?

We found no statute in Texas that names online sweepstakes casinos in the sources we checked, last verified October 3, 2026. Status on this page: nothing specific found.

Which ranked free sweepstakes apps accept Texas residents?

Per their own official rules, Chance Infinite, Coinnect, Prizes by GAMEE, Winsome Rewards, PCH+ and PCH Lotto accept residents of Texas. Chance Infinite is operated by the publisher of this site.

Do sweepstakes casinos accept players in Texas?

Of the 18 sweepstakes casino brands in our database, 0 exclude Texas and 0 limit it in their own documents, last verified October 3, 2026. Documents change often, so read the current terms first.

Sources

  1. S1 Texas Legislature Online, History for 89(R) SB 517, retrieved October 3, 2026
  2. S2 Texas Legislature Online, 89(R) SB 517, engrossed version, bill text, retrieved October 3, 2026
  3. S3 Texas Legislature Online, Bills By Subject: GAMBLING, 89th Legislature Regular Session, retrieved October 3, 2026
  4. S4 Texas Legislature (tcss.legis.texas.gov), Penal Code Chapter 47, Gambling, retrieved October 3, 2026
  5. S5 Texas Legislature (tcss.legis.texas.gov), Business and Commerce Code Chapter 622, Sweepstakes, retrieved October 3, 2026
  6. S6 SCCG Management, Texas Bill Could Quietly Kill Sweepstakes Casinos (July 2, 2025) (secondary reporting), retrieved October 3, 2026
  7. S7 Texas Legislature Online, 89(R) HB 2996, introduced text, retrieved October 3, 2026
  8. S8 Texas Legislature Online, 89(R) HB 487, introduced text, retrieved October 3, 2026
  9. S9 Texas Legislature Online, 89(R) HB 4132, introduced text, retrieved October 3, 2026

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