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Washington State Sports Betting Regulations Coming In Spring ’21

Live sports betting still a ways off, but 'pre-licensing' packet will be available

Jill R. Dorson by Jill R. Dorson
December 18, 2020
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Washington State regulators are aiming for spring to release and approve regulations for sports betting, they announced at Thursday’s Washington State Gambling Commission meeting. If they meet that timeline, that would mean that regulations would be approved just about one year after state lawmakers legalized sports betting. In most states, once the regulations are approved, it can still be months before sports betting can go live in a state.

Gambling Commission CFO Chris Stanley also announced during the meeting that Gov. Jay Inslee had included in his proposed budget an extension on repaying a sports betting loan to the state until 2023. Should the legislature accept Inslee’s budget, the WSGC won’t have to repay the $6 million the state fronted it earlier this year.

The loan was supposed to be used to help the WSGC to shut down illegal sports betting ahead of it being live in the state. But plans have been put on hold, and the WSGC had planned to go to the legislature to ask for an extension. The loan was supposed to be paid with interest in June 2021.

“This is really great news, it gives us a lot of flexibility,” said Stanley, who somewhat gleefully shared the news just after 2:30 p.m. local time when the embargo on Inslee’s proposed budget was lifted. “I’m grateful to the governor for putting this in the budget.”

Potential operators can get a leg up

Besides laying out the timeline for regulations, WSGC Legal and Legislative Manager  Brian Considine said his team is preparing a “pre-licensing” packet for potential sports betting operators. The packet would outline key items the state will need during the sports betting licensing process, and would allow operators and tribes to pull together the necessary documents before the application period opens.

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According to Considine, the rules could be available for review as early as the Jan. 15 meeting. If that happens, regulations could be approved as early as March, and then published in the Washington State Register.

When sports betting does go live in Washington, it will be at tribal casinos only, as per the new law. There is no mobile component to Washington’s sports betting law, meaning that anyone interested in sports betting will have to visit one of the state’s 29 casinos, more than half of which are sprinkled along the I-5 corridor between Tacoma and the Canadian border.

According to tribal sources earlier this year, at least four tribes were in negotiations with the state to add sports betting to their pacts. The state must work individually with each tribe, though both sides say that once appropriate language is created, it could be used in multiple pacts.

Along with Virginia, Washington was the only state to legalize sports betting via its legislature in 2020. Virginia lawmakers did so on April 22, and the expectation there is that sports betting will be live in January 2021. The law called for rules to be approved in that state by Sept. 15, 2020. Voters in Louisiana, Maryland, and South Dakota all legalized sports betting via referendum in November.

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Jill R. Dorson

Jill has covered everything from steeplechase to the NFL and then some during a more than 30-year career in sports journalism. The highlight of her career was covering Oakland Raiders during the Charles Woodson/Jon Gruden era, including the infamous “Snow Bowl” and the Raiders’ 2003 trip to Super Bowl XXXVII. Her specialty these days is covering sports betting legislation across the country. You can reach Jill at jill@bettercollective.com

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