Hold On, Isn\u2019t Sports Betting Already Legal in Montana?<\/strong><\/h2>\nMontana was one of four states \u2013 along with Nevada, Oregon, and Delaware – that were exempted from PASPA, the 1992 federal law that prohibited state-sanctioned sports betting, shot down US Supreme Court last year.<\/p>\n
Under a grandfathering provision, the state was permitted to continue the limited sports betting operations it had in place at the time PASPA was enacted. But unlike Nevada, Montana did not have full-scale, single-game sports betting.<\/p>\n
In the early nineties, the Montana Lottery operated a pari-mutuel sports-wagering game known as Montana Sports Action, which had more in common with fantasy sports than full-scale sports betting.<\/p>\n
The grandfathering provisions in PASPA sought to preserve these operations, but prohibited any form of expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Montana is expected to become the first state to legalize sports betting in 2019, after two bills were propelled to Democratic governor Steve Bullock\u2019s desk on Thursday. The two bills are not mutually exclusive, and the governor could potentially sign one or both into law. Lawmakers do not expect Bullock to veto both, but there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":103325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Legal Montana Sports Betting a Pen Stroke Away, as Two Bills Sent to Gov<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n