Self-exclusion in Hawaii

How to put yourself on Hawaii's self-exclusion list, what it covers, and what it does not.

Programme: None, and there is nothing for one to attach to. Hawaii licenses no gambling at all, so there is no gaming regulator, no casino, no lottery and no self-exclusion list. Gambling itself is a criminal offence: '(1) A person commits the offense of gambling if the person knowingly participates in any gambling activity. (2) Gambling is a misdemeanor.' Because the state licenses nobody, there is no operator a state list could bind.Hawaii Revised Statutes § 712-1223, read from an archived copy of the Legislature's own HRS pages (snapshot 2025-04-20) because capitol.hawaii.gov blocks our requests behind Cloudflare. An archived copy of the statute as published by the Legislature is still primary. The section is quoted with its subsection numbers, as the Legislature publishes it: the offence and the penalty are two numbered subsections, not one continuous sentence, and running them together made the quotation impossible to find on the page.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
Covers online betting: There is no state programme to cover it. Note what this means in practice rather than in law: Hawaii's prohibition does not put a block between you and an offshore gambling site, and no Hawaii body maintains a list that any operator checks. Closing accounts with each operator and blocking payments at your bank or card issuer are the only levers that exist for a Hawaii resident gambling online.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
Covers casinos and shops: There is no state programme, and no licensed retail gambling in Hawaii to be excluded from - no casinos, no card rooms, no racetracks, no licensed betting shops. There is consequently no venue in the state that holds an exclusion list you could put your name on.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
Covers the lottery: Not applicable: Hawaii has no state lottery. A lottery is one of the gambling schemes the criminal code defines and prohibits - 'Lottery' means a gambling scheme in which 'The players pay or agree to pay something of value for chances, represented and differentiated by numbers or by combinations of numbers or by some other medium, one or more of which chances are to be designated the winning ones' and 'The winning chances are to be determined by a drawing or by some other method based on an element of chance'. There is no state lottery corporation and so no lottery self-exclusion.The definition is from HRS § 712-1220, read via an archived copy (snapshot 2025-04-14) as the live site blocks us. Note that this is the definition used to prohibit lotteries, not a statement that no lottery exists; the absence of a Hawaii lottery follows from the fact that the state authorises and regulates no gambling at all.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 14 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
How long you can choose: Not applicable: with no state list there are no terms. Any length of block you achieve will be one you agree with an individual operator, or one you set up with a bank or with blocking software, and you will be the one choosing and tracking it.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
Can it be undone: Not applicable: there is no state exclusion to reverse. This matters more than it sounds, because the strength of a statutory self-exclusion is that someone other than you controls the way back in. Nothing available to a Hawaii resident has that property by default, so choose tools whose removal is deliberately slow - a bank block with a cooling-off period, or blocking software you cannot uninstall on impulse.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
What happens when it ends: Not applicable: there is no state exclusion, so nothing expires and nothing renews. Every block a Hawaii resident puts in place ends on whatever terms the operator, bank or software sets, and no authority will notify you when one lapses.Keep your own written record of what you have blocked and when, including the date each block was set and anything you were told about how it ends. In a state with no register, that record is the only account of your own exclusions that exists.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026
How you sign up: There is no state process. What is actually available: ask each gambling operator you have used to close your account permanently rather than deactivate it, ask your bank or card issuer for a gambling block, install blocking software on every device, and - if your gambling happens on trips to another state - use that state's statutory self-exclusion list, which is the only route that gives a Hawaii resident something a regulator will enforce.capitol.hawaii.gov (archived copy of 20 April 2025), checked 3 October 2026

Worth knowing before you start

Hawaii is one of the two states with essentially no legal gambling, and the honest answer is that the thing this site usually points people to does not exist here. That is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up, because a Hawaii resident searching for 'Hawaii self-exclusion' will otherwise keep looking for a form that was never written. Gambling is a misdemeanour under HRS § 712-1223, the state licenses no operators, and with no licensees there is nobody for a state list to bind. What that leaves is a set of tools that work regardless of where you live, and for someone in Hawaii they are not a fallback - they are the whole toolkit. Bank and card-level gambling blocks are the strongest, because they sit between you and every operator at once instead of relying on any one company's list, and the good ones are deliberately awkward to switch off. Blocking software on every phone, tablet and computer is the next layer. Permanent account closure with each operator you have used is the third, and it is worth insisting on closure rather than deactivation, because operators blur the two and a deactivated account can usually be revived in minutes. Two points specific to Hawaii. Because the prohibition is on gambling rather than on operators, nothing in Hawaii law stands between a resident and an offshore gambling site, so the practical exposure here is online and the practical remedies are financial rather than regulatory. And because many people in Hawaii gamble on trips to the mainland, the one genuinely enforceable exclusion available is the statutory self-exclusion list of the state you travel to - if your gambling is concentrated in one casino or one city, joining that state's list is the closest thing to the protection this page would otherwise describe. Finally, support does not depend on gambling being legal: the National Problem Gambling Helpline on 1-800-522-4700 covers every state, by phone, text and chat.

Done? The rest of the hour: blockers, a bank block, closing the accounts, telling one person.

Every fact on this page was read from an official source and dated. The oldest of them was checked on 3 October 2026. Tell us if something here is wrong.