Michigan Online Gambling 2020

Before any MI sportsbooks can open, licensures need to be granted first. It certainly looked like Michigan online sportsbooks would become a reality early on in 2020, with March Madness being the goal for retail sports betting to launch.

After MI sports betting was left at a standstill with the previous governor’s veto, Michigan online sports betting is the highlight of a large gambling package that was signed into law by current Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Friday, December 20th, 2019.

Any state in the US can approve online and sports betting, so long as the regulation doesn’t break any federal law. New Jersey won its case at the Supreme Court in 2018 and became one of the first to pass legislation on online betting. Now Sports Betting in New Jersey is thriving in the Garden State and is generating a lot of revenue with protected bettors by licensed bookmakers. Other states have joined in legalizing online betting, with the possibility of sports betting being added in the near future.

Michigan can now join the ranks of states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by being able to introduce both retail and online sports betting to its residents, opening up the opportunity to bet on a number of popular sports.

Those of you who have been following this issue closely knew that it was more likely for online sports betting to be legalized before retail outlets. The House Bill 4926 does state that any organization can apply for a sports betting license.

This means Michigan’s many land-based casinos can now apply for a license to allow sports betting on the premises. We’ll look at this in more detail shortly. Legislation for allowing gambling online and MI sports betting was first brought up in 2015.

Michigan has officially approved the legalization of sports betting! We’ll have to wait and what the future holds for MI online sports betting.