Kansas, Maine, and Massachusetts legalized sports betting in 2022. Those three additions leave 16 U.S. states without legal sports betting platforms.

Among those 16 are states with massive populations that hold the attention of sports betting operators, including California, Florida, and Texas. While legal sports wagering in those states doesn’t appear imminent, they could make progress in 2023, and a few other jurisdictions appear poised to legalize this year.

The question for 2023 is, what states will take the big leap forward? And what states will bloviate with hot air while doing nothing?

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In Georgia, there’s an expectation that legal sports betting will come up during the session, although a legal sports betting launch in the state figures to be at least a couple of years away. 

New Lt. Gov. Burt Jones supports legal sports betting, which could be impactful. He’s hopeful the state can make strides toward legalizing in 2023, perhaps putting a proposal in front of voters in 2024. 

North Carolina s toward the top of the list of states most likely to legalize mobile sports betting in 2023, given the state’s close call in 2022. Retail sports betting is allowed in North Carolina at a pair of tribal casinos. 

North Carolina’s legislative session begins Wednesday and lasts through the end of August. That’s ample time for the legislature to discuss sports betting, and legal mobile wagering is expected to be a topic of discussion during this year’s legislative session. 

Bills from 2023 can also carry over to the 2024 legislative session, so if a bill makes progress but doesn’t pass this year, it can be discussed again in 2024. For a bill to succeed in 2023, legislators will need to make progress on debates about allowing betting on college sports and general concerns about moral and integrity issues.

Minnesota has 11 gaming tribes in the state, and Minnesota’s path to legalization will run right through Indian Country. For the first time, the tribes in 2022 got behind a House bill that would have given them exclusivity, but they pulled their support when the Senate stripped that out of the bill. In the future, lawmakers and the tribes will have to agree, which likely means tribal exclusivity, for wagering to pass. As is the case in many tribal states, Minnesota’s tribes already offer casino gaming and are loathe to give up their exclusivity regarding sports betting. So far, no bills have been filed, but stakeholders seem optimistic.

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