Registrations and filings required for businesses - Gambling Commission

To allow agricultural fairs to operate bingo, raffles, and/or amusement games and ensure compliance with regulations.

To allow an organization to provide necessary sports wagering support services that includes: (1) Mobile payment processing for use in sports wagering; (2)  Know your customer or identity verification for use in mobile sports wagering; (3)  Marketing or promotional affiliates for a sports wagering vendor or tribal sports wagering operator where the contractual financial arrangement is based on a percentage of an operator’s sports wagering revenue.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct amusement game activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Games played for entertainment.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct bingo activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Awarding prizes on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers or symbols selected at random in which cards are only sold at the time and place of said game.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct social card game activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Nonhouse-banked - fee to play or limited card games or house-banked card games.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct bingo, raffles, amusement games and allows general card games where no fee is charged.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations affiliated with a qualified sports team to conduct electronic raffle activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Selling of tickets bearing an individual number for which a prize or prizes are awarded on the basis of a drawing from the tickets.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is serving individuals with intellectual disabilities to conduct enhanced raffles.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct a fund-raising event and ensure compliance with regulations.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to rent or lease equipment for fund-raising events.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct punch board/pull-tabs activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Selling a board with a number of openings, a flare, or a folded tab that conceals winning numbers or symbols.

To allow charitable/nonprofit organizations to conduct raffle activities and ensure compliance with regulations. Selling of tickets bearing an individual number for which a prize or prizes are awarded on the basis of a drawing from the tickets.

To allow commercial owners of amusement games to operate and/or rent amusement games in authorized locations, as set forth in WAC and RCW.

To allow for the distribution, renting or leasing of authorized gambling equipment for use in authorized gambling activities.

To allow commercial organizations to rent or lease equipment for fund-raising events.

To allow premises use for playing social, public or house-banked card games and ensure compliance with state regulations. Commercial Stimulant/Profit-Seeking Organization offering house or non-house-banked card games.

To allow premises use for playing social, public or nonhouse-banked card games and ensure compliance with state regulations. Commercial Stimulant/Profit-Seeking Organization offering nonhouse-banked card games.

To allow businesses to offer punch boards and pull-tabs and ensure compliance with state regulations. Commercial Stimulant/Profit-Seeking Organization offering punch boards or pull-tabs.

To allow an organization to provide unsolicited enhanced raffle sales assistance to the nonprofit organization licensed to conduct enhanced raffles.

To allow organizations to provide the means to licensed bingo operators in Washington the means to link bingo prizes and ensure compliance with state regulations.

To allow an organization to provide integral sports wagering goods or services, including (1) Managing a Tribe's or Tribes' sports wagering operations; (2) Being a Tribe's or Tribes' primary consultant who provides substantial sports wagering related services; (3) Being a manufacturer or distributor of a sports wagering system(s); (4) Providing bookmaking services; or (5) Providing sports wagering risk management services.

To allow for the manufacturing of gambling equipment and ensure compliance with state regulations. Manufacturers of gambling equipment/paraphernalia.

A special sales permit may be issued when demand for a particular type of equipment, scheme, or paraphernalia is anticipated to be below the level of economic feasibility of obtaining a license.

To allow an organization to provide services or equipment related to data, security, and integrity that includes: (1) Integrity monitoring;  (2) Data to be used by a Tribe (s) or sports wagering vendor including data to set odds; (3) The compilation, furnishing, or storage of data for use in sports wagering; (4) Initial or annual wagering system security testing or assessment; (5) Geofencing and geolocation compliance and monitoring; and (6) Sports wagering account management including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. 

To allow a commercial business to conduct Bingo at agricultural fairs only. Special Property Bingo Permit (single agricultural fair) or Annual Permit (different agricultural fairs).

To allow a nonprofit organization to conduct Bingo at agricultural fairs only. Special Property Bingo Permit (single agricultural fair) or Annual (different agricultural fairs).

To control gambling equipment and records relating to the operation of gambling activities. Commercial organization that provides recordkeeping services for punch board and pull-tab operators for compensation.

To allow an organization to conduct a Recreational Gaming Activity (RGA). Commercial organization that is planning on conducting an RGA .

To allow an organization to conduct a Recreational Gaming Activity (RGA). Charitable/nonprofit organization that is planning on conducting an RGA .

To allow for services to be provided related to gambling and ensure compliance with state regulations. Consulting or advisory services regarding gambling, gambling management services, financing for gambling, etc.