Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Webster is preparing legislation that would require state-licensed online casinos and sportsbooks to send customers monthly activity statements showing the amount they wagered, won and lost.
Webster, who represents Montgomery County, circulated a co-sponsorship memorandum to House colleagues on Sept. 16. The proposed requirement would apply to operators licensed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, and Webster presented it as a consumer-protection measure intended to give users a clearer view of their gambling activity. The bill had not been filed when Casino.org published its account.
Webster said the rise of internet gambling had coincided with more self-reported problem gambling. Calls and texts to the state’s 1-800-GAMBLER service rose by more than 300% between 2021 and 2024, while 37% of problem-gambling hotline outreach in fiscal year 2024/25 concerned internet gaming.
The proposal follows concerns raised in a Pennsylvania report we covered in July, which urged quicker online-gambling reforms. A separate 2025 Pennsylvania Interactive Gaming Assessment found that up to 30% of adults had participated in some form of online gambling in the preceding year, compared with 20% in the 2024 report. It also put revenue from state-regulated interactive-gaming operators at more than $3 billion.
Pennsylvania players lost more than $7 billion during fiscal year 2025/26. The state recorded 9,677 new self-exclusion enrollments over the same July-to-June period, up 18% from the prior 12 months. As of Oct. 2, 52,530 people had self-excluded across Pennsylvania’s four self-exclusion programmes, which cover casinos, interactive gaming, video-gaming terminals and fantasy contests.
Webster’s memo said the plan would mirror an Australian monthly-statement requirement implemented in July 2022. He also cited a University of Sydney study finding that such statements helped the most severe problem gamblers make positive behavioural changes.
Similar disclosure measures have been considered elsewhere. In neighbouring New Jersey, state Sen. John McKeon’s Senate Bill 4280 would require internet casinos and online sportsbooks to send monthly betting recaps and notify customers electronically when the statements are available. New York’s Legislature has also approved a bill requiring standardized monthly account statements for mobile sports-betting customers, although Gov. Kathy Hochul had not signed it and faced a Dec. 31 deadline to do so.
