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Separate changes that affect your publishing model from rules for other products.
The change board
1 January 2026: effective; the Judicial Council identifies restrictions on conducting or supporting online sweepstakes games.
Publishers connecting demos to sweepstakes promotions; distributors serving those businesses.
Review promotional destinations and supplier dependencies, not only the embedded demo. (courts.ca.gov)
5 December 2025: signed; the act provides for immediate effect.
Operators, publishers, media affiliates and relevant service providers.
Reassess New York-facing sweepstakes promotion and support. (nysenate.gov)
22 May 2026: signed and effective.
Businesses operating or commercially promoting covered online gambling products.
Review commercial promotion and obtain the enacted-law analysis, not an early bill summary. (wapp.capitol.tn.gov)
29 July 2026: effective, confirmed by the Gambling Control Unit.
Businesses serving or promoting defined dual-currency sweepstakes games in Maine.
Update territorial and promotional controls. (maine.gov)
23 June 2025: effective; 22 April 2026: principal compliance deadline, subject to specified safe-harbour exceptions.
Covered child-directed services and general-audience services with relevant actual knowledge.
Treat outstanding implementation as remediation, not preparation for a future deadline. (govinfo.gov)
1 January 2026: effective, with phased compliance for certain provisions.
CCPA-covered businesses meeting the relevant processing or audit conditions.
Assess applicability, risk-assessment triggers and implementation dates separately. (cppa.ca.gov)
1 January 2026: universal opt-out requirements and additional protections concerning minors and precise geolocation.
Covered publishers and their data-processing arrangements.
Test signal handling and review age- and location-related processing. (doj.state.or.us)
1 October 2025: statutory effective date identified by the Attorney General.
Publishers meeting Maryland’s coverage tests.
Reassess collection necessity, sensitive data and supplier roles. (oag.maryland.gov)
21 October 2025: W3C announced approval as ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This is a standards development, not a universal US statutory deadline.
Product and engineering teams setting accessibility requirements.
Specify the accessibility target and evidence required for the entire playable experience. (w3.org)
1 January 2027
This is a browser-provider requirement; covered websites already have applicable signal-handling obligations.
Test supplier behaviour with signals enabled and document failures. (privacy.ca.gov)
1 January 2027
Do not assume every catalogue filter or game recommendation is a significant decision.
Assess any potentially covered use separately from ordinary catalogue functionality. (cppa.ca.gov)
31 December 2027
This is not a grace period for every new 2026 integration.
Inventory legacy processing and assign assessment owners. (cppa.ca.gov)
1 April 2028
Assessment, submission and audit obligations have different triggers.
Build records now rather than waiting for filing preparation. (cppa.ca.gov)
Statuses follow the supplied research cut-off, 27 October 2026. Applicability depends on the publisher and product.
Prioritise the complete publishing arrangement—not just whether the game accepts money.
Read →02The dates below are already past as of 27 October 2026.
Read →03Do not classify them as the same product—but do not rely on the word “free” to distinguish them.
Read →04The immediate relevance is often promotion and supply-chain support, rather than the no-prize demo itself.
Read →05The principal amended-rule compliance deadline was 22 April 2026.
Read →06For covered businesses, privacy assessment now belongs in integration approval—not only in the privacy-policy update.
Read →07A California-only implementation is not a national assessment.
Read →08The most immediate future milestone is 1 January 2027, but it does not postpone duties already in force.
Read →09WCAG 2.2’s recognition as ISO/IEC 40500:2025 strengthens its usefulness as a procurement specification; it does not itself create a universal US compliance deadline.
Read →10No replacement approval was identified in this research.
Read →11Treat disclosure as an existing requirement, not a newly announced 2026 rule.
Read →12Use a documented acceptance decision rather than a supplier’s general compliance assurance.
Read →13Buy an evidenced publishing arrangement, not a catalogue count.
Read →Desk self-assessment / out of 10