Buenos Aires: Law Bans Alimentary Debtors from Casinos & Bingos
The Province of Buenos Aires took a decisive step in its policy to protect children and adolescents after a regulation was approved in the provincial Senate that will prevent delinquent child support debtors from accessing casinos, bingo halls, and gaming rooms. With this legislative endorsement, the project is one step away from being enacted by the Executive Branch.
The initiative, promoted by Deputy Germán Di Cesare, had obtained preliminary approval in the Chamber of Deputies in March and now received the final backing of the Senate. The article establishes that any person included in the Registry of Delinquent Child Support Debtors (RDAM) will be barred from entering any authorized gaming establishment in the Province.
According to the text, concessionaires and administrators of casinos and bingo halls must mandatorily consult the RDAM before allowing a customer access. If the person appears in the registry, entry must be denied immediately. To ensure compliance, the Executive Branch must guarantee operators real-time access to this database.
The measure is based on Law 13,074, which regulates the RDAM, and seeks to prevent those who fail to meet child support obligations from allocating resources to gambling. The ruling party emphasized that this is “a concrete tool to protect boys, girls, and adolescents” and a way to generate “effective consequences for those who evade parental responsibilities.”
The project also includes sanctions for venues that do not comply with the regulation: warnings, fines ranging from 10 to 100 minimum wages, temporary closures, or even permanent closure in cases of serious repeat offenses.
Once the law is enacted, the Executive will have a period of 90 days to issue the corresponding regulations and define the enforcement authority responsible for supervising and overseeing the system.
With this approval, Buenos Aires becomes one of the first jurisdictions in the country to link access control to in-person gambling with compliance with family obligations, integrating social responsibility policies with the management of the gaming sector.
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