It’s time to end the offshore, illicit market for online sports betting and casino gaming, and create consumer-protected and transparent markets in all 50 states.
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STATE OF PLAY: SPORTS BETTING
Legal and regulated online sports betting offers an accountable alternative to the illicit offshore marketplace, which continues to flourish in states that haven’t yet legalized online sports betting.
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Legal and regulated sounds like a brand promise. It is actually a list of specific, enforceable consumer protections an offshore operator does not, and structurally cannot, provide. Four of them, side by side, explain why the word legal carries any weight at all
Misrepresenting data can lead to bad policy, which carries real consequences for people who are struggling with gambling disorders and depend on services funded, in part, by legal, regulated sports books and increasing tax revenues from these regulated frameworks
Match-fixing thrives in darkness. The World Cup is a reminder that legal, regulated sports betting helps bring it into the light
The surge in betting activity surrounding the FIFA World Cup is renewing efforts by sports betting advocates to convince Texas lawmakers to legalize sports wagering during the upcoming legislative session
STATE OF PLAY: ONLINE CASINOS
With only a handful of states where online casino gaming is legal, the vast majority of consumers are betting on unregulated, offshore platforms that provide no verified protections and dodge billions in potential gaming taxes that states could use to fund important community priorities.
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Virginia's proposed iGaming legislation (SB 118 and HB 161) doesn't just address responsible gaming — the proposed provisions would become the gold standard of consumer protections for the United States
The reality is that these legislative bills would put Virginia at the vanguard of responsible gaming by mandating the most robust consumer protections in the nation
This year, the General Assembly has an opportunity to enact comprehensive legislation — House Bill 161 and Senate Bill 118 — that protects Virginians from predatory platforms, creates jobs and collects new tax revenue from licensed igaming operators
Many sites do not have strong identity verification and are able to advertise on social media with little oversight. Tech-savvy young people in the United States can gamble on them using false identities and readily available software to mask their locations, often unbeknownst to their parents