Online casinos in Minnesota: is it legal?

No authorized sports betting of any kind, retail or online. The Department of Public Safety Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division lists the state's legal gambling as charitable gambling, the Minnesota Lottery, pari-mutuel horse racing, card rooms and tribal Class III casino games, and lists sports betting among the illegal activities it criminally investigates. Tribal Class III gaming runs under 22 tribal-state compacts with 11 Tribal Nations covering 20 casinos; per DPS the Class III games permitted under those compacts are blackjack and video games of chance, and the compacts have no expiration date (https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/age/gambling/tribal-state-gaming-compacts). Any legalisation therefore has to be negotiated around tribal exclusivity, which is the fault line the bills below keep failing on. Bills carry over within the 94th Legislature (2025-2026 biennium). No online casino / iGaming bill exists at all: exact-phrase searches of bill text on revisor.mn.gov for 'online casino', 'internet casino', 'internet gaming', 'interactive gaming' and 'iGaming' return no House or Senate documents. Minnesota does not record a 'died in committee' status, so a bill's status is simply its last recorded action.

What the legislature is doing

Bills that would change what is legal online in Minnesota — loosening or tightening — with the status each legislature publishes. A bill that died still tells you something about the direction of travel.