Category: Legal Sports Betting

The US Department of Justice and its new stance on the Wire Act continue to create headaches for some state-regulated gambling industries. In a Wednesday interview with WV Metro News, the top regulator in West Virginia blamed the DOJ for the delay in fully implementing mobile WV sports betting. According to WV Lottery Director John Myers, any further approvals are on hold indefinitely. While unrelated, the ongoing service outage…

Legal March Madness betting across the United States certainly will become one of the biggest wagering events on the sports calendar. Just how big will it be? That is the question the Legal Sports Report team attempts to answer today. The basics of March Madness betting Here is some of the information we used for context: The American Gaming Association (AGA) estimates that 4.1…

A new proposal in Pennsylvania’s legislature would require any additional gaming revenue heading to the state be used only for property tax relief. Sponsored by State Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York), Senate Bill 269 would give homeowners a break by making up some of the shortfall in the Property Tax Relief Fund that was set up a decade ago. Underperforming Fund Currently, the fund gets…

Welcome to the first March Madness with legal sports betting outside Nevada in the United States. March Madness betting is nothing new, of course. Last year alone, bettors put up more than $300 million on the NCAA Tournament through Nevada sports betting alone. The illegal market for March Madness betting claims an even more robust total. An American Gaming Association (AGA) report estimates as…

Already a long shot to pass in 2019, Maryland sports betting met its demise for this year at the state legislature. Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. declared dead efforts to maneuver around a constitutional requirement to approve MD sports betting at the ballot box. “Sports betting is going to have to wait until next year,” Miller said in the Washington Post…

Happy Friday, cowboys and cowgirls, and welcome back to another edition of our policymaking pull-together. In this recurring piece, we do our best to compile and condense all of the week's legislative movement around sports betting in one place. Here are the vitals for US sports betting right now: States with regulated sports betting: 8 Jurisdictions pending launch: 3 States with bills on file: 34…

The state legislature continues to press Gov. Andrew Cuomo to authorize mobile NY sports betting. Amid budget negotiations, Senate lawmakers are prepared to include enabling language in their proposal to Cuomo. Voters previously approved NY sports betting for four upstate casinos, and regulators are now working to create a framework of rules. Legal Sports Report has obtained a draft of the budget language, which includes…

There is neither a bill nor any proposal, but there is some ray of hope for Florida sports betting to sneak into the state's short legislative session. A priority of the legislature is negotiating a new gaming compact with the Seminole tribe. Senate President Bill Galvano tells Legal Sports Report he thinks legal sports betting would be part of any agreement. “It’s definitely part of the…

A long-awaited sports betting bill appeared in Ohio on Thursday, marking one of the last major states in the Midwest or Northeast to address the topic in earnest. And it seems primed to get a real push this spring. The legislation — which you can see here — would allow for both land-based and online wagering in the state. In the Ohio budget? Adding…

Whether Connecticut sports betting constitutes a casino game was a key part of the discussion Tuesday in a committee hearing. The Public Safety and Security Committee listened to testimony on its new committee bill that would authorize CT sports betting at tribal casinos, off-track betting parlors and via the Connecticut Lottery. The inclusiveness of H 7331 differs from bills discussed in committee two weeks ago. Those would give…