The Mississippi House has passed its second mobile sports betting bill of the session.
State representatives passed HB 4074 by a decisive 100-11 vote last week. The proposal advanced even after the Legislature’s February 12 crossover deadline, which typically ends consideration of general legislation that has not yet moved from its original chamber. Since HB 4074 modifies gaming tax rates and generates new state revenue, however, it can move forward as a revenue bill exempt from standard crossover deadline under House rules.
The bill bumps the tax paid for online sports betting to 22% from 18.5%, which sponsor Rep. Casey Eure called “the national average.”
It also reduces the state gaming tax that’s paid by brick-and-mortar casinos to 6% from 8%, which Rep. Eure said would save casinos around $48 million.
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Eure noted that the projections on mobile sports betting could generate $100 million annually in tax revenue. That compares to $125 million in tax revenue generated in Tennessee and $102 million generated in Louisiana.
About half of those tax dollars would go toward the state’s Public Employee’s Retirement System. Around $2 million would go toward problem gambling programs annually.
Eure also noted that the money saved from casinos does not have to be reinvested.
Senate typically the sticking point
HB 4074 now heads to the Senate, where similar mobile sports betting proposals have stalled in past legislative sessions.
That includes HB 1581, another mobile sports betting bill that passed the House this year but has not yet been heard in a Senate committee.
Mobile betting legislation died in the Senate in 2025 and 2024 after passing a bill to study the industry in 2023. Before that, bills failed to expand sports betting online in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Mississippi was one of the first states to launch in-person sports betting after the fall of PASPA in May 2018.
Sweepstakes ban bill alive in House
While the House has done its part on mobile sports betting, it still has to act on banning sweepstakes casinos.
SB 2104 ban online sweepstake style casinos and impose felony penalties carrying fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in prison, signaling a parallel effort to expand regulated betting while cracking down on unlicensed gambling platforms.
Mississippi has not waited to act on sweepstakes operators, though. Last year, the Mississippi Gaming Commission sent cease-and-desist letters to multiple operators.
