In a move that falls short of what many proponents of statewide mobile sports betting had hoped for, the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would create a Mobile Sports Betting Task Force to study the issue.
The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Tate Reeves, after the House approved changes made by the Senate earlier in the session.
Currently in order to place sports bets from a mobile phone in Mississippi gamblers must be on casino property. The original version of House Bill 606 would have changed that, expanding that to include the whole state, but that was changed early on in the legislative process.
