HRS §712-1221
Serious gambling promotion and its penalties
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This law makes it a serious crime to help gambling make money in certain big ways. It covers taking many bets, handling lottery money or records, or getting over $1,000 from gambling in a week. If you do this, it is a class B felony.
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The statute, as written — Promoting gambling in the first degree
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(1) A person commits the offense of promoting gambling in the first degree if the person recklessly advances or profits from gambling activity by: (a) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that the person receives or accepts in any seven-day period more than five bets totaling more than $500; (b) Receiving in connection with a lottery, or mutuel scheme or enterprise, money or written records from a person other than a player whose chances or plays are represented by such money or records; or (c) Receiving or having become due and payable in connection with a lottery, mutuel, or other gambling scheme or enterprise, more than $1,000 in any seven-day period played in the scheme or enterprise. (2) Promoting gambling in the first degree is a class B felony.
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