It’s time for the legislature to get into the game!
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania unanimously ruled that PA Skill Games are legal games of skill. This is a major victory for Pennsylvania small businesses, non-profit organizations, veteran’s groups, fire halls, and others that rely on the supplemental income from skill games to keep their doors open.
Now it’s time for the state legislature to regulate and tax legal skill games to ensure every Pennsylvanian wins! The revenues, estimated at $250 million in the first year alone, could be used to improve education in our public schools, address mental illness, help fund our local fire departments, or support many other important initiatives.
Contact your legislators today! Tell them right now is the time to get off the sidelines and get into the game.

Support Commonsense Regulation And Taxation of Skill Games

Contact your legislator TODAY about SB 706 and HB 2075!

Tell them to vote YES on commonsense skill game regulation

Many Pennsylvania small businesses and fraternal organizations rely on skill games for supplemental, sustainable income. These establishments include family-run mom-and-pop restaurants and bars as well as community-centered organizations such as VFW halls, American Legion posts, and volunteer fire departments.  

Income from skill games goes toward creating and sustaining jobs, paying competitive wages, making critical location updates, offering employee benefits, donating to charitable causes, and much more. Most importantly, it allows these locations to continue to provide spaces for our community members to gather.

Senate Bill 706 (sponsored by Sen. Gene Yaw) and House Bill 2075 (sponsored by Rep. Danilo Burgos) are commonsense legislation to further regulate, fairly tax, and establish much-needed guidelines for legal games of skill.

Reasonable skill game legislation will also give law enforcement the tools they need to better identify and crack down on illegal gambling devices and the mini casinos that have proliferated across the state.

Some in Harrisburg are calling for an astronomically high tax rate on skill games which would unfairly target small businesses and non-profit organizations while simultaneously reducing tax revenue for the state.

An unreasonably high tax rate will harm those establishments that rely on skill game income the most. It will take money away from small businesses already struggling with inflation and fraternal organizations that often use the income to support charitable causes. If businesses can’t justify keeping legal skill games at best, the state will lose that tax revenue, at worst, some locations may replace legal games with illegal machines.

Fortunately, Governor Josh Shapiro and many legislative leaders support commonsense regulation and taxation of skill games.

Supporting skill games means supporting small local businesses and non-profit organizations while generating hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax revenue for the state and local governments.

Now is the time to pass commonsense legislation and fair taxation for skill games in Pennsylvania.

Thank you for your service to our commonwealth.

Contact your legislator TODAY about SB 706 and HB 2075!

Tell them to vote YES on commonsense skill game regulation

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