The following section shows a state-by-state impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Murphy, which rules the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court granted states the individual discretion to make sports gambling laws. As a result, New Jersey, the state who challenged the constitutionality of PASPA, passed legislation in 2018 to officially make sportsbooks a legal source of state revenue regulated by the Division of Gaming Enforcement. Similarly, Delaware, a state that was an exception under PASPA and had started lottery games based on sports game results, also launched sportsbooks regulated by the State's Office of the Lottery. On the other hand, Nevada, already had a developed, mature, sports wagering system prior to Murphy. Thus, Nevada became a model system with a heavy influence on the structure of the administrative bodies that were created in other states as they passed legislation.
Included in this section is the legislation that made sports wagering legal in the three major sports gambling states (Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware), the legislation that made sports wagering legal in other states (Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, etc.), and the legislation that is pending in states where sports wagering is not yet legal (Florida, Washington D.C., etc.).
