Self-exclusion in Vermont

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

Programme: The Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery's self-exclusion list (the Department's 'Exclusion List' page), a statewide programme for mobile sports wagering. The statute requires it: under 31 V.S.A. 1302(c)(5) the Department must establish a uniform self-exclusion programme that keeps a listed player from placing wagers with any of the State's authorised sports wagering operators and fantasy sports contest operators.The statutory duty is 31 V.S.A. § 1302(c)(5), which is a different document from the Department page cited above: the Department 'shall establish a uniform self-exclusion program' that ensures 'a listed player is excluded from placing wagers with any of the State's authorized sports wagering operators and fantasy sports contest operators' — https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/fullchapter/31/025liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers online betting: Yes, and this is essentially all it covers: 'Self-exclusion allows a person to request to be excluded from legalized mobile sports wagering activities in Vermont.' The statute's uniform programme also reaches fantasy sports contest operators.liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers casinos and shops: Nothing retail. The statutory list of who must honour the programme names 'any of the State's authorized sports wagering operators and fantasy sports contest operators' — no casinos, racetracks or in-person sportsbooks appear in it, and Vermont's sports wagering chapter authorises mobile wagering.The statutory wording quoted above is 31 V.S.A. chapter 25, the source for this field. The Department's own description of the scheme as covering 'legalized mobile sports wagering activities' is on its exclusion-list page instead — https://liquorandlottery.vermont.gov/exclusion-listlegislature.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Covers the lottery: Not covered. The statutory programme reaches sports wagering operators and fantasy sports contest operators, and the Department's exclusion-list page describes mobile sports wagering only — it does not mention lottery draw or scratch games. That gap matters in Vermont because the same Department runs the Lottery and sells tickets at hundreds of retail locations, so a sports-wagering exclusion leaves lottery play entirely open.legislature.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
How long you can choose: One year, three years, five years, or lifetime.liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
Can it be undone: A lifetime exclusion cannot be undone: 'If you select the lifetime option for self-exclusion, you will not be able to remove yourself from the list.' For the fixed terms the Department's page offers no early-exit route at all — it describes removal only as what happens once the chosen period has been reached.liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
What happens when it ends: It ends by itself. 'You will be removed from the self-exclusion list once you've reached the end of your selected 1, 3 or 5 year exclusion period.' To stay excluded you have to act: 'To remain on the self-exclusion list once your initial exclusion period has expired, please sign up for the self-exclusion list again.' A lifetime exclusion does not expire.Nobody re-enrols you and the page describes no reminder, so the day your term ends every licensed Vermont sportsbook is open to you again. If you want this to hold, put the expiry date in a calendar the day you enrol, with a reminder a fortnight earlier, or pick the lifetime option — which the Department says you will not be able to remove yourself from.liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026
How you sign up: Online, through the Department's registration portal (linked from the exclusion-list page as a simpligov workflow). You need a selfie and a picture of a photo ID, your Social Security number and an official identification number — driver's licence, passport or state ID — plus access to your email and your mobile phone to receive a one-time authentication code. Help with signing up is available at DLL.PlayerExclusion@vermont.gov. No notary and no in-person visit is required.liquorandlottery.vermont.gov, checked 3 October 2026

Worth knowing before you start

Vermont's programme is narrow and easy to over-trust: it is a mobile sports betting exclusion, nothing more. The same Department that administers it also runs the Vermont Lottery, and lottery tickets stay available to you at every retailer in the state, so if scratchers or draw games are part of the problem this list will not help with them. The one trap worth setting a calendar reminder for is the automatic removal at the end of a one, three or five year term — you come off the list on that date without being asked, and the Department's instruction is simply to sign up again if you want to stay on. There is also a weaker, separate tool you may be offered inside a sportsbook app: the state's Sports Wagering Procedures require operators to offer self-restriction, account cool-offs and responsible gaming limits, and to tell you about 'requirements to reinstate an account at the end of the period' and give you 'the ability to enroll in the statewide Voluntary Self-Exclusion Program and a link to such site'. An in-app self-restriction is not the statewide list; if you want every licensed Vermont sportsbook closed to you, enrol with the Department. Vermont-specific help is at vtgamblinghelp.org, and the National Problem Gambling Helpline is 1-800-GAMBLER.

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.