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A Kansas sports betting bill is swiftly moving through the state legislature and is on track to pass in 2021. A similar bill made headway in 2020, but ultimately, did not cross the finish line in time to establish legal sports betting in the state of Kansas. SB 84 designates the Kansas Lottery as the regulatory … Read more
Wyoming is the Equality State, but when it comes to sports betting, the scales have historically been tipped toward offshore sportsbooks. That’s because WY has not been in a rush to regulate domestic sports betting despite several of their neighbors dipping into those waters and extracting healthy profits for their tax collectors. House Representative Tom … Read more
A new Florida sports betting bill, HB 1317, was introduced this afternoon by House Representative Chip LaMarca of Broward County. The Sunshine State is preparing to begin its legislative session on March 3rd, and there have been several bills introduced thus far with the intent of legalizing sports betting in Florida. Representative LaMarca’s bill attempts … Read more
After years of sports betting struggling to take hold in Massachusetts, new bills have been introduced to the state legislature that attempt to outline domestic sportsbook regulations for future operations. While the introduction of new legislation hardly represents a friendly posture – bills come and go all the time without making it to a committee … Read more
The Badlands are showing signs of getting a little better, as a new House Resolution for legal sports betting in North Dakota is gaining momentum in the state legislature. Yesterday, the ND House Judiciary Committee favorably reviewed the new sports betting resolution, ND HCR3032 (authorizing sports betting), and have now passed it on to be … Read more
Iowa was among the second wave of legal sports betting states when it launched its brick-and-mortar and online sportsbooks back in August 2019, roughly 15 months after the overturn of PASPA. Since then, Iowa has seen its move into sports gambling pay off handsomely, as the market was immediately popular. You can review the numbers … Read more
It seems that the winds of change are blowing strong in the Peach State following months of political unrest that flipped Georgia from red to blue in the 2020 Presidential election as well as the US Senatorial runoffs. Now, legal sports betting in Georgia is on the minds of state legislators, as two companion bills … Read more
The state of New York is currently facing a $15 billion dollar budget deficit, and as is the case in many other territories, sports betting has been tapped as the best hope to quickly make up such a massive shortfall. Of course, legal sports betting in New York can already occur at the region’s four … Read more
Legal sports betting was approved by Michigan lawmakers back in 2019, with in-person sportsbooks opening their doors for business in March of 2020. Shortly after, the onset of COVID-19 across the United States forced non-essential businesses like casinos and sportsbooks to close down their operations until safer guidelines for avoiding the contagion could be developed … Read more
VA lawmakers have huddled together and agreed on legal sports betting language that has opened the door for mobile sportsbooks just in time to lay some action on Super Bowl 55 odds. Virginia has already approved of domestic, in-person sports betting locations at their in-state casinos, but none of those venues have opened for business … Read more
It seems that the crest of the sports betting wave has broken and is now crashing down upon the states that have yet to regulate it, as one by one, new territories approve of legislation to allow for in-person, mobile, and online domestic sportsbooks. If any state was struggling prior to the onset of COVID-19, … Read more
Super Bowl 55 is less than a month away, but Virginia lawmakers have mobile sports betting on the fast track and intend to get it across the finish line in advance of the big game on February 7th. The Virginia Lottery, the governing body of sports betting in VA, is preparing to issue 12 licenses … Read more