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The Colorado Senate voted 22-13 on April 23 to advance a heavily amended Senate Bill 117, dropping its earlier proposals to ban online lottery sales and instant-win e-instant games. The original bill would have wiped out the state’s iLottery industry, but lawmakers concluded a ban could conflict with the Colorado Constitution because e-instants might be classified as slot machines, which require voter approval to regulate.
What survived in the final version is a single restriction: a prohibition on using credit cards to purchase lottery tickets, e-instants, or other lottery products. That reverses a decision made by the Colorado Lottery Commission last November allowing credit-card purchases. Senator Jeff Bridges, who championed the amendment, framed it as scaling the bill back to “no lottery gambling on credit cards.” The bill heads next to the House Finance Committee, and Governor Jared Polis’s office has signaled support for the Lottery Commission’s earlier credit-card decision.
