Online casinos in Mississippi: is it legal?

Sports betting is legal but RETAIL ONLY, on casino premises. The Mississippi Gaming Commission's own FAQ states that most any gambling game can be played on a licensed casino floor including wagering on sporting events, and that sports wagering not conducted in a casino is illegal, with online and mobile sports wagering apps specifically identified as illegal. Mobile sports betting bills are filed in volume every year and die on the same fault line: the House passes a bill, the Senate kills it in committee. That happened in 2025 (HB 1302: '02/03 (H) Passed', then '03/04 (S) Died In Committee', http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/history/HB/HB1302.xml) and twice again in 2026 (HB 1581 and HB 4074, both below). No bill would legalise online casino; the only online-gaming bills move the opposite way, extending the criminal gambling prohibition to any online, interactive or computerized version of a game (SB 2104, '03/03 (H) Died In Committee'). Bills listed below are from the 2026 Regular Session, the most recent.

What the legislature is doing

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