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Alfredo Toscano, second vice-president of Argentina’s Tucumán Legislature, has introduced a bill that would prohibit online gambling and sports betting throughout the province, citing the accessibility of digital gambling and concerns over its effects on young people and families.
The proposal is supported by legislators Carlos Najar and Roberto Moreno. It would prohibit the organisation, operation, commercialisation and advertising of online games of chance and sports betting through websites, mobile applications and other digital platforms.
The proposed law would withdraw existing licences, authorisations and permits for online gambling in Tucumán. It also provides for technical measures to restrict access to betting websites and applications, as well as restrictions on advertising and promotion of online gambling.
Platforms currently authorised to operate would have a 90-day transition period to cease operations. During that period, they would be required to stop accepting new registrations and deposits and return outstanding balances to users in Tucumán.
The initiative would not affect traditional land-based gambling. Its sponsors say it is directed specifically at digital gambling and online betting, rather than gambling in all forms.
Money collected through fines would be allocated exclusively to provincial mental-health programmes and gambling-disorder prevention initiatives.
Toscano said the proposal was intended to curb a digital form of gambling that has expanded access beyond anything previously seen in the province.
“Our objective is to prohibit online gambling. Gambling will continue to exist, as it always has. But today we have a form of gambling with a scale and accessibility that we have never had before. That is why we believe it is necessary to set a limit in our territory, because more and more people are exposed and more and more families are affected.”
Toscano’s proposal follows separate initiatives introduced earlier in 2026 by Tucumán legislator Claudio Viña. Viña proposed prohibiting gambling and online-casino advertising on football club shirts and in sports stadiums, barring clubs that receive state support from promoting virtual casinos or online betting, and introducing biometric controls for online gambling platforms.
