FanDuel Alaska isn’t a licensing backlog or a slow regulator — there is no license category for a sportsbook to apply to. House Bill 145 would create one, and it has now been heard and held twice without a vote, first in May 2025 and again in February 2026. The more interesting Alaska gambling story this year has nothing to do with sports betting at all: it’s a fight over bingo-style machines at two tribal gaming halls, one near Anchorage and one near Juneau.

HB 145: Heard and Held, Twice

Rep. David Nelson introduced HB 145 on March 21, 2025. The bill would let the Department of Revenue issue up to ten online sportsbook licenses, each carrying a $100,000 annual fee and a 20% tax on adjusted gross revenue, with wagering able to start as early as January 1, 2026 if three operators were licensed in time. That start date has already passed with nothing launched. The House Labor and Commerce Committee took testimony in May 2025 and didn’t vote. Because Alaska runs two-year legislative sessions, the bill carried over rather than dying — and the same committee heard it again on February 27, 2026, and held it again.

What HB 145 would actually do: ten licenses, a $100,000 annual fee, 20% tax on adjusted gross revenue, Department of Revenue oversight. What it has actually done so far: nothing — no floor vote in either chamber as of this writing.

Is FanDuel Legal in Alaska?

No, and that answer doesn’t change until HB 145 or a successor actually passes. Outside that bill, Alaska law permits exactly one category of gambling: charitable gaming under AS 05.15 — bingo, raffles, and pull-tabs run by nonprofits under Department of Revenue Tax Division permits. Sports wagering, for FanDuel or any other operator, sits entirely outside that statute.

The Casino Story Alaska Is Actually Having

Most restricted states on this site have a tribal casino as the fallback legal option. Alaska mostly doesn’t, because the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished almost every reservation in the state in exchange for land and money paid to Native corporations — Metlakatla is the lone exception. That makes the two gaming halls that opened anyway unusual: the Native Village of Eklutna’s “Chin’an” hall in Birchwood, outside Anchorage, runs on a federal determination that its allotment counts as Indian land for gaming purposes — a ruling the State of Alaska sued to overturn in February 2025. A federal judge dismissed a related residents’ lawsuit in July 2025, ruling the tribe is federally recognized and can operate the hall, even as the state’s separate challenge to the underlying federal land ruling continued. In 2026, the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes soft-opened its own hall on Douglas Island near Juneau, with roughly 100 Class II machines.

Class II means bingo, not blackjack: both halls run electronic bingo and pull-tab-style machines under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act’s Class II category, which doesn’t require a state compact the way Class III table games and sports wagering would. None of this touches sportsbook law, and none of it involves FanDuel.

Is FanDuel Safe for Alaska Players?

There’s no licensed FanDuel sportsbook product in Alaska to evaluate for safety, so the question doesn’t really apply yet. What does run in Alaska is FanDuel’s daily fantasy product, operating on the same skill-contest argument DFS has used nationwide for a decade, with FanDuel setting its own 18+ age floor by company policy rather than state mandate — and FanDuel Predicts, the company’s federally regulated event-contracts product, which runs under CFTC rules nationwide rather than any Alaska statute.

Who It Fits

Nobody gets a FanDuel sportsbook in Alaska today. A resident who wants a FanDuel product has fantasy contests and, as of 2026, FanDuel Predicts — neither one requires the state law that HB 145 would create. Gambling is entertainment, never income, and that holds whether or not Alaska ever licenses a sportsbook. 21+ where applicable; 1-800-GAMBLER.