Lawmakers in Indiana have approved legislation that would ban sweepstakes casinos in the state. The bill passed the state Senate on Thursday and now only requires the governor’s signature to become law, a step widely viewed as a formality.

If enacted, the ban will take effect on July 1. Operators that continue offering sweepstakes-style casino games in the state could face fines of up to $100,000 for violating the new rules.

Indiana would become the seventh U.S. state to explicitly prohibit sweepstakes casinos. Similar bans are already in place in Montana, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, New York, and Nevada. Most of these restrictions were introduced within the past year, signaling increasing regulatory pressure on this segment of the online gaming market.

In several other states—including Washington, Michigan, Louisiana, and Idaho—regulators have taken a different approach. Instead of adopting separate legislation, authorities there generally classify sweepstakes casinos as illegal gambling operations and actively enforce existing laws against them.

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