Pennsylvania Lawmaker Preps Bill Requiring Monthly Wagering Statements
Pennsylvania state Rep. Joe Webster (D-Montgomery) is preparing legislation that would require every online sportsbook and casino licensed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) to send customers a monthly statement summarizing their betting activity. Webster outlined the plan in a memo circulated to fellow House members on Sept. 16, seeking co-sponsors ahead of formally introducing the bill.
Why Webster says it's needed
In the memo, Webster points to a sharp rise in demand for the state's problem-gambling helpline as his justification: contacts to 1-800-GAMBLER rose more than 300% between 2021 and 2024, and 37% of that outreach was specifically related to online betting. "Problem gambling negatively affects families across the Commonwealth, and this consumer protection measure will provide important transparency to make it easier for Pennsylvanians to know what they are wagering," Webster wrote.
The proposal lands alongside fresh numbers from the PGCB's own 2025-26 annual report, released this week — the 20th edition of the agency's yearly recap. The report shows 9,677 people enrolled in one of the state's self-exclusion programs during the fiscal year that ran from July 2025 through June 2026, an 18% jump from the year before. As of Oct. 2, 2026, a cumulative 52,530 people had self-excluded across Pennsylvania's four programs (casinos, interactive gaming, video gaming terminals, and fantasy contests), with men between 35 and 44 the demographic most likely to enroll. Pennsylvania bettors and casino players lost more than $7 billion in the 2025-26 fiscal year.
Pennsylvania isn't alone
A similar idea is already moving in New Jersey, where state Sen. John McKeon has introduced Senate Bill 4280. McKeon's version would go a step further procedurally, requiring licensed operators to push an automatic in-app alert telling customers when their monthly statement — showing exactly how much they wagered, won, and lost that month — is ready to view.
Neither bill has passed as of this writing; Webster's proposal hasn't yet been formally introduced in the Pennsylvania House.
Why it matters to bettors
If either bill becomes law, it would mark one of the more concrete consumer-protection mandates to come out of a state legislature since mobile sports betting expanded nationally — closer to a bank or credit-card statement than anything most operators currently send voluntarily. For bettors in either state, it's worth watching: a mandated monthly statement would make it considerably harder to lose track of total wagering activity across a season, something today largely depends on checking an app's own account history.