South Dakota lawmakers passed a sports betting ballot measure early last month. For now, it appears the coronavirus outbreak won’t stop South Dakotans from seeing that referendum on their 2020 ballots.
Kentucky gambling expansion will have to wait even longer after lawmakers passed an abridged budget for the upcoming fiscal year in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
At the beginning of the month, Washington D.C. sports betting was set to begin in time for the Washington Nationals’ March 26 season opener. Now a week after what was supposed to be the season’s first pitch, Major League Baseball has yet to begin its season and the city’s sports betting app is still sidelined.
Legalizing commercial casinos in Nebraska was an uphill climb even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Casino backers said as recently as this week they will still push for three gaming referendums on the 2020 ballot, but it remains a difficult challenge to collect enough signature to do so ahead of a July 2 deadline.
Washington sports betting will soon be legal, but it will be with one of the most limited reaches of any of the two-dozen states already accepting wagers or set to do so.
The Missouri state capitol closed Tuesday, another blow to legal sports betting and likely ending hopes for legal wagering in 2020.
The nation’s largest potential sports betting market won’t start taking bets until at least 2022 after a campaign to put legal wagering on the 2020 ballot was suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak. California’s constitution requires a statewide voter-backed amendment, which now can’t come until the 2022 midterm elections at the earliest.
The Virginia legislature approved a sports betting bill that would permit online wagering in the commonwealth. Assuming Gov. Ralph Northam signs the bill into law as expected, here’s everything bettors need to know about Virginia sports betting.
A Virginia sports betting bill would be a boon for a wide range of businesses, but professional sports leagues – and one NFL team in particular – are positioned to be among its largest beneficiaries.
Online and retail sports betting in Maryland could come in 2021 after lawmakers approved a bill that will ask voters to legalize wagering on this year’s ballot.
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