Last modified: March 27, 2024
# of States (and D.C.)
Legal: 27
Illegal: 12
Arizona
- License Fees: Application Fee $100,000; Initial License Fee $750,000; Annual Renewal Fee $150,000
- Tax Rate: 10% online, 8% casino
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: 20 Indian tribes and professional sports entities: 10 licenses are issued to Indian tribes; 10 licenses are issued to professional sports entities
Arkansas
- License Fees: Application fee of up to $250,000; 10-year renewal fee: $10,000
- Tax Rate: 13% on the first $150,000,000 of net casino gaming receipts and 20% on net casino gaming receipts exceeding $150,000,000
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: No
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Permits up to 8 mobile sportsbooks; currently 3 retail and 3 mobile
Colorado
- License Fees: Internet Sports Betting Operator Licensee OR Master Licensee conducting internet sports betting: $78,000; Sports Betting Operator Licensee OR Master Licensee conducting retail sports betting: $11,700; New Master License: $2,000; New Sports or Internet License: $1,200
- Tax Rate: 10%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, other than proposition bets
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 21 mobile; 10 retail
Connecticut
- License Fees: Online initial license: application fee of $250,000 with renewal fee of $100,000; Retail license: initial application fee of $20,000 with annual renewal fee of $20,000
- Tax Rate: The tribes are required to pay 13.75% on off-reservation sports betting; as a state entity, the Connecticut Lottery does not pay taxes for the right to offer sports betting
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, provided wagering on Connecticut college teams only when they are playing in an intercollegiate tournament.
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: 3 online skins and must partner with a Indian tribe or the lottery; CT Lottery can operate up to 15 retail sportsbooks
Delaware
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: State receives 50% of revenue from sports betting
- Consumer Protection Provisions: NA
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but not on Delaware colleges
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: 3 casinos operate retail sportsbooks
Florida
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: NA
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: NA
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: NA
Illinois
- License Fees: The Initial license fee for a master sports wagering license for an organization licensee is 5% of its handle from the preceding calendar year or the lowest amount that is required to be paid as an initial license fee by an owners licensee under subsection (b) of Section 25-35, whichever is greater but not to exceed $10,000,000. For an organization licensee licensed after the effective date of this Act, the master sports wagering license fee shall be $5,000,000 or 5% of its adjusted gross receipts from its first 12 months of gambling operations, whichever is greater but not to exceed $10,000,000; The master sports wagering license is valid for 4 years; Renewal Fee: $1,000,000 for a 4 year license.
- Tax Rate: 15%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but not Illinois collegiate teams/programs
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 8 mobile sportsbooks
Indiana
- License Fees: Application fee of $100,000; $50,000 annual fee
- Tax Rate: 9.5%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 17 mobile sportsbooks
Iowa
- License Fees: Initial license fee is $45,000; Renewal Fee $10,000 annually
- Tax Rate: 6.75%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but not on Iowa colleges
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Each of the 19 casinos in the state can have up to 3 online partners
Kentucky
- License Fees: Tracks must pay an initial $500,000 fee with a $50,000 renewal. Sports betting service providers must pay an initial $50,000 fee with a $10,000 renewal.
- Tax Rate: 9.75% at retail locations, 14.25% online
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Up to 27 mobile sportsbooks permitted; currently 8 mobile and 9 retail
Louisiana
- License Fees: Sports Wagering License Application Fee $250,000; Sports Wagering License Fee $500,000 every 5 years
- Tax Rate: Online 15%; Retail 10%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Each of the 20 combined casinos and pari-mutuel horse tracks are allowed to partner with 2 online operators
Maine
- License Fees: Mobile Initial and Renewal License fee: $200,000 every 4 years; Facility Sports Wagering License Initial and Renewal fee: $4,000
- Tax Rate: 10%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, as long as not on Maine team
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Each of the 4 casinos have 1 skin and 10 retail locations are allowed
Title 8, Ch. 35, Ā§1207. Mobile sports wagering license: To be eligible to receive a mobile sports wagering license, an applicant must be a federally recognized Indian tribe in this State. Each federally recognized Indian tribe may receive only one mobile sports wagering license under this section. A mobile sports wagering license may not be transferred or assigned, except that a federally recognized Indian tribe may transfer its mobile sports wagering license to a business entity with a principal place of business in the State that is wholly owned by that federally recognized Indian tribe.
Massachusetts
- License Fees: Application Fee of $200,000; Initial and renewal license fee: $5,000,000 for five years
- Tax Rate: 20% (online); 15% (in person)
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, as long as no MA team except in a tournament
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Authorizes 15 mobile sports betting licenses: 7 available by competitive bid, and 8 tied to a land-based partner (casino or racetrack)
Michigan
- License Fees: Application fee is $50,000; Initial license fee is $100,000; Renewal License Fee $50,000 each year (a) Sports betting operator license application: $50,000.00.
- Tax Rate: 8.4%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 14 sportsbooks
Mississippi
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: 12%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Mobile sports betting only allowed on casino’s physical premises
Montana
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: NA
- Consumer Protection Provisions: NA
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Only option is Sports Bet Montana
You can only register, log in, upload documents, browse the site, deposit, prepare wagers on your betslip, withdraw funds, set your personal limits, change your personal details when you are at home. You cannot place bets through your personal computer or mobile phone while at home. You can only place wagers in an authorized Sports Bet Montana location.
Nebraska
- License Fees: $5,000,000 to be paid over 5 years (set statute) ā the first $1,000,000 due at time of application; Annual renewal: $50,000
- Tax Rate: 20%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but not on Nebraska collegiate teams/placing
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: NA
New Hampshire
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: 51%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, as long as no school in the competition is from New Hampshire or the competition does not take place in New Hampshire
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: No more than 10 sportsbook retail locations may be in operation at any given time.
New Jersey
- License Fees: Initial License Fee: $100,000
- Tax Rate: 8.5%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes as long as no school is from New Jersey
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 17 sportsbooks
New York
- License Fees: Mobile platforms: $25,000,000 initial fee with annual $2.5M fee to land-based commercial casino to house servers/etc.; Retail/casinos: no initial/renewal fee
- Tax Rate: Mobile platform: 51%; Land-based: 10%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: No
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, as long as no school in the competition is from New York
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Only 9 mobile sportsbooks are currently allowed to operate in the state
South Dakota
- License Fees: The application fee is $5000, and the license fee is $2000 with a fiscal year (July through June) renewal fee of $2000
- Tax Rate: 9%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but no proposition bets and not involving South Dakota collegiate athletes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: NA
Tennessee
- License Fees: $50,000 application fee; Annual License Fees: for Licensees receiving $100,000,000 or more in Gross Wagers in the immediately preceding 12-month period, $750,000; for Licensees receiving less than $100,000,000 in Gross Wagers in the immediately preceding 12-month period, $375,000
- Tax Rate: 1.85%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but wagers based on propositions, player statistics, whether a team will play or not play, and in game betting not allowed
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 12 sportsbooks
Vermont
- License Fees: $500,000
- Tax Rate: 20%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes, but not on Vermont collegiate events unless playing in a national sports tournament
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Permits up to 6 mobile sportsbooks
Virginia
- License Fees: Permit Holder Application: No fee due at time of submission; however, a fee of $250,000 is due prior to the award of a permit; Principal Application – $50,000 non-refundable fee per principal/principal entity; Renewal Fee: $200,000
- Tax Rate: 15%
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 21
- College Sports Allowed: Yes as long as it is not on a Virginia team and no proposition bets on college sports
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Currently 16 online sportsbooks, 1 retail
Washington
- License Fees: NA
- Tax Rate: NA
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: Yes as long as it is not on a Washington team or that takes place in Washington
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Mobile is only allowed on a tribe’s retail premises
Mobile sports wagering is allowed as long as the wager is placed at a tribe’s gaming facility only while the customer placing the wager is physically present on the premises of that tribe’s gaming facility.
Washington D.C.
- License Fees: A Class A operator license shall be issued for 5 years and require an application fee of $500,000; Renewal fee is $250,000
- Tax Rate: 10% of the gross sports wagering revenue from the preceding calendar month
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: No
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: Limit of 5 sportsbooks
Wyoming
- License Fees: Application Fee $2,500; Permit Fee: $100,000 for 5 year permit
- Tax Rate: Monthly tax of 10% of online sports wagering revenue from the previous month
- Consumer Protection Provisions: Yes
- Minimum Age: 18
- College Sports Allowed: Yes
- Master Licenses and Potential Partnerships Available: 4 online sportsbooks