Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Indiana Gaming Commission unanimously denied an NCAA petition, heard around September 2026, to prohibit college player proposition bets statewide, instead deferring the broader policy question to the legislature rather than resolving it through administrative rulemaking. This leaves the narrower Senate Bill 120 restriction, which prohibits sports betting certificate holders and vendors from accepting proposition bets from a collegiate athlete on the sport that athlete plays, as the operative rule; SB120 carries a civil penalty of up to 10,000 dollars against the athlete and took effect 1 July 2026. Separately, Public Law 153, signed 12 March 2026 and effective 1 July 2026, gives the commission civil penalty authority against operators who knowingly serve Indiana residents with prohibited dual- or multi-currency sweepstakes products. Together these developments show a commission willing to enforce narrowly-drawn statutory prohibitions but unwilling to expand its own rulemaking reach beyond what the legislature has enacted.