Wyoming’s billion-dollar gambling industry will be the sole focus of a new select committee created by legislative leadership this year, given the “heavy lift” of the complex issue.
“The issue is, there’s no home committee for gaming,” said Sen. John Kolb, R-Rock Springs, one of the co-chairmen for the new Select Committee on Gaming. “It’s been kind of the unwanted child, getting passed from committee to committee.”
Last year, the Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee took the first stab at investigating gambling in Wyoming.
The JAC created a special working group devoted to exploring this topic and paid for a statewide comprehensive study of the gambling industry. By the end of the interim, five committee-sponsored bills related to gambling were filed for the 2025 legislative session.
