US States With Legal Sports Betting
Legal Sports Betting In Colorado
Voters approved the activity when they voted “yes” to Proposition DD during their November ballot in 2019. Colorado residents and visitors of the state will now have a chance to go to a retail sportsbook in one of three towns. Those gambling towns are Black Hawk, Cripple Creek, and Central City.
Casinos in those towns that receive a license to conduct sports betting in Colorado will also be able to offer statewide mobile sports wagering apps. In-person registration won’t be required to use these apps so as long as you are within state lines you will be able to bet on the Broncos, Rockies, or any other professional or collegiate team for that matter.
Legal Sports Betting In Connecticut
The Connecticut sports betting market went live on October 7 with the launching of the DraftKings and FanDuel sportsbooks at the Foxwood Casino and Mohegan Sun respectively. Online sportsbooks 텐벳 went live with a soft launch on October 12 hosting a limited number of gamblers at set times to test sportsbooks. The official launch came a week later on October 19, in time for the start of the NBA season.
There are three active mobile sportsbooks in Connecticut. FanDuel is live through its partnership with the Mohegan tribe. DraftKings is live through its partnership with the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. And Rush Street Interactive in conjunction with the Connecticut Lottery has launched PlaySugarHouse.
Legal Sports Betting In Delaware
Delaware is one of the states that were exempt fr om PASPA, though initially only partially. This is because, in 1976, Delaware expanded its lottery laws to include NFL parlay cards. They weren’t very popular and the state ceased offering this form of legal sports betting after a single year.
But because they never repealed the law, Delaware became one of the four states grandfathered into the federal law exemptions (though only for those parlay cards). With the overturn of PASPA, legal Delaware sports betting now includes single-game wagering. Delaware has also legalized online sports betting, but that product has not yet been rolled out.
Legal Sports Betting In Florida
Florida saw its sports betting market launch in October 2021 with retail operations active through the Florida Seminole run Hard Rock Casinos. The fate of online sportsbooks was technically wrapped up in legal battles as several lawsuits aimed to block sports betting; however, the Seminoles Hard Rock Sportsbook app began taking wagers on November 1 anyway. The Florida sports betting market was regulated thanks to the gaming compacts between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Governor Ron DeSantis. A few weeks later, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the updated state-tribal gaming compact violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and was therefore nullified completely. As a result, there are no currently offered sportsbooks in Florida until a new bill, tribal compact, or voter initiative once again authorizes sports betting in the state. This may take some time – until then, sports bettors of Florida can utilize licensed, internationally-based online sportsbooks.
Legal Sports Betting In Illinois
Sports wagering was legalized in Illinois on June 28, 2019, when Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed SB 690 into law. The Illinois sports betting laws allow for sports betting lounges to operate at the state’s 10 riverboat casino venues, and it also allows horse racing tracks in the state to host sportsbooks. Lottery retail locations could also offer sports betting under the law.
Additionally, SB 690 allows for online and mobile sports betting statewide. Illinois will tax all sports betting revenue at a rate of 15%. Retail sportsbooks in Illinois will pay 5% of their gross gaming revenue as a licensing fee, with the maximum allowable fee being $10 million. These licenses last for four years. SB 690 also allows Illinois to issue three online-only sports betting licenses, which will cost $20 million each.
Legal Sports Betting In Indiana
The Indiana legislature passed legislation to legalize sports wagering in late April 2019, and it was signed by the governor on May 8, 2019. Legal 윈윈벳 sports wagering in Indiana is allowed to be offered at any of IN’s 13 state-licensed gaming venues, though the bill allows for the building of more gambling sites, which will also be able to offer sports betting. Laws regulating sports betting in Indiana also allows state-wide online sports wagering, making the state one of the most comprehensive sports wagering destinations on the map.
On September 1, 2019, sports betting launched in three retail locations. Since then more and more gambling establishments have joined and have launched Indiana sportsbooks themselves. However, it wasn’t until October 3, 2019, that online sports betting in Indiana went live. Rush Street Gaming launched an online sportsbook via its partnership with French Lick Casino and DraftKings launched one as well through its partnership with Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago.
Legal Sports Betting In Iowa
Three closely-related sports wagering bills have been passed by the IA legislature and were signed by Governor Kim Reynolds on May 13, 2019. These legal Iowa sports wagering bills allow betting to take place at any of the state’s 19 brick-and-mortar gambling venues (both land-based and riverboat). The Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission oversees the industry, and vendors are taxed at 6.75%, matching NV’s sportsbook tax rate as the lowest in the US.
Both land-based and state-wide online sports betting apps were launched on August 15, 2019. Iowa could theoretically sign up to 38 different sportsbooks within its borders.
Legal Sports Betting In Louisiana
Louisiana regulated sports betting in November 2020 through citizen vote. Since then, legislators passed its three sports betting bills, SB 142, SB 247, and HB 697 to allow the Louisiana sports betting market to officially launch. Louisiana officially went live on October 6 2021 in order to capitalize on the NFL season as well as the start of the NBA season.
Louisiana has both mobile and retail sports betting (mobile launching at a later date) but these are only accessible in the 55 parishes that voted in favor of sports betting. The remaining parishes are geolocked out of having regulated sportsbooks. This is how the regulations have been set by the legislation.
Legal Sports Betting In Maryland
Sports betting was legalized in Maryland after residents voted in favor of the practice on the November ballot. HB 940 would then go on to pass in April 2021 and be signed into law by Governor Larry Hogan in May. On December 10, 2021, Maryland launched its first state-regulated retail sportsbook. Currently, there are no state-regulated online sportsbooks available in Maryland – however, bettors can still utilize licensed, internationally-based online sportsbooks. These sportsbooks have been safely and legally providing sports betting services to Americans for decades, and often will host much more valuable betting lines and odds than state-regulated sportsbooks.
