Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

No licence suspensions, revocations, or enforcement actions were identified for North Carolina this cycle. The principal development is Senate Bill 595, signed June 2026, which grants the NC Department of Revenue direct access to bettor account data from licensed operators for accounts with two thousand dollars or more in annual winnings, requestable once per year. This is a fragile, tax-compliance-driven mechanism sitting alongside, rather than amending, the durable Chapter 18C licensing statute, and it represents a material expansion of state visibility into individual player activity rather than a change to licensing eligibility or enforcement powers themselves. Player-protection requirements, including self-exclusion, deposit limits, and the twenty-one-plus minimum age standard, remain in force with no evidenced change. North Carolina's tax-only treatment of prediction markets has, per available evidence, so far avoided the CFTC-adjacent litigation wave affecting other states' event-contract regulatory approaches.