Gonzalo Atanasof, President of the Buenos Aires Province Lottery and Casino Institute (IPLyC), is scheduled to appear before the provincial Chamber of Deputies’ committee on gambling, lottery and gambling addiction prevention.
The meeting is part of a series of consultations with relevant stakeholders to bring together existing proposals into a unified bill aimed at addressing digital gambling addiction.
Deputy Micaela Olivetto chairs the committee, which is examining the comprehensive bill. Representatives from the different legislative blocs are expected to take part in the discussions, with advertising restrictions and the proposed specialized prosecutor’s office among the issues under debate.
According to IPLyC, Atanasof will present the institute’s policies on problem gambling prevention and the coordination of awareness campaigns across the province. His presentation is also expected to cover oversight of licensed betting platforms and the tools currently used to monitor their activities.
He is also expected to answer technical and regulatory questions the blocs sent last Thursday.
The agenda includes measures to combat illegal gambling, including complaints, financial tracking and requests to block unauthorized websites. The consultations are intended to help lawmakers agree on the bill’s final wording before it advances through the legislative process.
Deputies Facundo Tignanelli and Micaela Olivetto, both of the Fuerza Patria bloc, introduced the unified bill on October 7.
The 64-article text would establish a comprehensive regime for the prevention, regulation and control of online betting in Buenos Aires province, amending Law 15.079, which governs online betting and licenses, and Law 15.131, which covers compulsive gambling prevention policies and the self-exclusion registry.
Under the proposal, all advertising, promotion or sponsorship of online betting aimed at the province would require prior IPLyC authorization, even when the operator is based elsewhere.
The bill also proposes creating a specialized prosecutor’s office to investigate illegal online betting, alongside measures to strengthen enforcement against unauthorized operators.
The committee was created in February to consolidate 22 bills, but began analyzing the Tignanelli and Olivetto text recently.
Olivetto, the committee chair, has described the growing accessibility of online gambling as a central concern, using the phrase: “Casinos in every pocket, in every home.”
The bill would create a specialized prosecutor’s office for illegal online betting within the Office of the Attorney General of the provincial Supreme Court
