Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

HB0043 creates Wyoming's first standalone state felony offenses for money laundering and illegal investment, codified at W.S. 6-3-1101 through 6-3-1103 and effective July 1, 2026. This is confirmed, durable primary legislation, corroborated by trade-press reporting on its legislative intent, and it originated from the Select Committee on Gaming in direct response to a gambling-industry risk study -- indicating the legislature views this as a gambling-sector enforcement gap being closed. The new felony tool gives Wyoming independent state-level criminal-enforcement capacity that sits atop existing federal Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN coverage, rather than replacing it. Separately, the Wyoming Gaming Commission amended its rules to add persons found guilty of athlete harassment to the state's involuntary self-exclusion list; this is a probable, fragile regulator-level action, revocable by a successor commission, but it demonstrates an actively engaged regulator supplementing its integrity and player-protection tools between legislative sessions. No further enforcement events were identified this cycle. Licence-revocation risk for simulcasting/HHR permit holders is now also tied to the new SF0045 revocation grounds at the local-approval layer, compounding the existing state-level licensing framework.