A recent poll found that 59% of California residents support online sports betting.Ĭalifornia would immediately leapfrog New York as the nation's most lucrative regulated market. The online sports betting initiative has targeted Augas a launch date.
If both measures receive more than 50% 'yes' votes, the one with the greater amount of votes will prevail. That initiative legalizes sports betting on tribal lands and state-licensed horse racing tracks.
Meanwhile, a retail-only sports betting referendum backed by the state's Native American tribes has already qualified for the ballot. Sports betting is illegal in California, but voters will have two chances to change that as soon as November 2022 now that an online sports betting initiative has qualified for the ballot.Īn initiative backed by DraftKings, BetMGM and FanDuel has generated more than $1.6 million signatures and will appear on the November ballot.
