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Sports (online)
Online sports betting is legal and live in 30 states and DC, as of Oct 12, 2026. Wisconsin has legalized it but not yet launched. 4 states allow it in a limited form.
Mobile / online sports wagering. Both together: states with legal sports betting.
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States live over time
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By state
| State | Status | Launched | Model | Current tax | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Live | Sep 9, 2021 | Competitive | 10% AGR (online) | Statewide mobile wagering tied to the full (tribal + non-tribal) event wagering licenses. Per ADG's current approved-operator list: Bally Bet (Phoenix Mercury), Bet365 (Ak-Chin), BetMGM (Cardinals), Caesars (Diamondbacks), Desert Diamond Mobile (Tohono O'odham Nation), DraftKings (TPC Scottsdale), Fanatics (Tonto Apache), FanDuel (Suns), Hard Rock Digital (Navajo Nation), PENN/theScore Bet (Phoenix Raceway), Plannatech/betcris (San Carlos Apache), RSI/BetRivers (Rattlers). Circa Sports (San Juan Southern Paiute) is licensed but "not yet launched"; Golden Nugget (Hualapai) and Sporttrade (Quechan) have "ceased operations in Arizona" per ADG. |
| Arkansas | Live | 2022 | Competitive | No separate sports-wagering tax; online (mobile) sports-wagering net revenue, run through the licensed casinos' mobile partners, is folded into the same tiered 13%/20% net-casino-gaming-receipts tax (see casino_commercial). NET_REVENUE (online) | Amendment 100 itself did not authorize statewide mobile wagering; the Racing Commission adopted a rule change in 2022 to permit it through partnerships between the state's licensed casinos and third-party mobile sportsbook operators, with a requirement that the casino licensee receive at least 51% of net sports-pool revenue (the reason national brands had to partner with casinos rather than operate independently). In February 2026, the Commission unanimously approved FanDuel (partnered with Oaklawn) and DraftKings (partnered with Southland) to launch statewide mobile sportsbooks. |
| Colorado | Live | May 1, 2020 | Competitive | Promotional-bet deduction eliminated entirely OTHER (total) 10% NET_REVENUE (total) | Statewide online/mobile wagering; master licenses held by limited-gaming casinos, which may each operate multiple online "skins." No numerical skin cap in statute but each operator needs a casino master license partnership. |
| Connecticut | Live | Oct 12, 2021 | Hybrid | 13.75% GGR (online) | Exactly three licensed online platforms ("skins"), each tethered to a Master Wagering Licensee: DraftKings (Mashantucket Pequot/Foxwoods), FanDuel (Mohegan Tribe/Mohegan Sun), and Fanatics (Connecticut Lottery, replacing PlaySugarHouse in December 2023). Betting on Connecticut college teams is barred except when that team plays in an intercollegiate tournament, and single-game wagers on CT college teams are prohibited even then. |
| District of Columbia | Live | 2020 | Competitive | 20% GGR (total) 10% GGR (total) 30% GGR (total) | Launched 2020 as GambetDC, a DC Lottery monopoly mobile app run by Intralot; missed revenue targets badly (~$4.3M revenue vs. an $84M initial 4-year projection). OLG briefly made FanDuel the exclusive mobile subcontractor (GambetDC closed 2024-04-14, FanDuel app live 2024-04-15), then the Council's FY2025 Budget Support Act (D.C. Law 25-217, permanent; emergency predecessor effective 2024-07-15) opened the District to multiple citywide mobile operators and created a Class C license for operators partnering with DC sports teams. |
| Florida | Live | Nov 7, 2023 | Monopoly Tribal | 13.75% GGR (total) 10% GGR (total) | Mobile wagering (Hard Rock Bet) is deemed under the compact and § 285.710(13) to be conducted exclusively by the Seminole Tribe because the servers sit on tribal land, regardless of the bettor's physical location elsewhere in Florida. The Tribe must contract with any willing qualified pari-mutuel permitholder for marketing/branding services, paying the permitholder not less than 60% of profit from wagers by that permitholder's registered patrons. Hard Rock Bet first launched 2021-11-01, was suspended 2021-12-04 after a district-court ruling against the compact, and soft-relaunched 2023-11-07 following the D.C. Circuit's reversal, reaching broader/full access by early December 2023. Legal challenges continue in Florida state court over whether off-reservation mobile betting is independently lawful under state law. |
| Illinois | Live | Jun 18, 2020 | Competitive | $0.25 per wager for the first 20,000,000 combined annual wagers; $0.50 per wager thereafter (per operator, per fiscal year). PER_WAGER (online) 20% AGR (online) $0–$30.0M 25% AGR (online) $30.0M–$50.0M 30% AGR (online) $50.0M–$100M 35% AGR (online) $100M–$200M 40% AGR (online) $200M–∞ 2% AGR (online) | In-person registration requirement for new mobile accounts was in place at launch and later repealed (sunset March 2022). Multiple online operators now live (DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Fanatics, Caesars, bet365, ESPN BET, etc.). |
| Indiana | Live | Oct 3, 2019 | Competitive | 9.5% AGR (online) | Statewide mobile wagering tethered to a licensed riverboat/racino certificate holder; no separate online-only skins. BetRivers and DraftKings launched online October 3, 2019; FanDuel followed October 22, 2019. Tribal mobile wagering under the Pokagon compact is limited to the 166-acre reservation footprint, not statewide. |
| Iowa | Live | Aug 15, 2019 | Competitive | 6.75% NET_REVENUE (total) | Advance deposit (mobile/online) sports wagering is statewide, tethered to a licensed facility operator. In-person account registration was required only through December 31, 2020; after January 1, 2021, accounts may be established remotely. |
| Kansas | Live | Sep 1, 2022 | Monopoly State | 10% GGR (total) | Each of the 4 lottery gaming facility managers may contract with "interactive sports wagering platform providers" (e.g., DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM) rather than operate a capped number of statewide skins; the Kansas Lottery retains ultimate ownership/control of all sports wagering per statute. |
| Kentucky | Live | Sep 28, 2023 | Competitive | 14.25% AGR (online) | Each licensed track may contract with up to 3 sports wagering service providers/skins offering online/mobile wagering under the track's or provider's brand. |
| Louisiana | Live | Jan 28, 2022 | Competitive | 21.5% NET_REVENUE (online) | Mobile/online wagering is available statewide only within the 55 parishes that approved the 2020 referendum (geofenced); the nine rejecting parishes are excluded. Launch was delayed from an original 2021 target, partly because Louisiana's constitution bars enacting a new tax outside an odd-numbered year and partly due to Hurricane Ida disrupting licensing staff; mobile betting went live January 28, 2022. |
| Maine | Live | Nov 3, 2023 | Monopoly Tribal | 10% AGR (online) | Mobile sports wagering is exclusively reserved for Maine's 4 federally recognized tribes (Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi'kmaq Nation); each may hold only 1 mobile license and may contract with 1 management-services provider (e.g. a national sportsbook brand) to operate it. $200,000 fee pre-9/1/2024, $50,000 after; 4-year terms pre-9/1/2024, 1-year after. Went live online Nov. 3, 2023. |
| Maryland | Live | Nov 23, 2022 | Competitive | 20% OTHER (online) | 12 licensed mobile sportsbooks as of the regulator's current list (DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, etc.). Ten of the state's first mobile operators completed launch requirements and went live together on November 23, 2022. The mobile tax rose from 15% to a transitional 30% for FY2026 (July 2025-June 2026) and settles at a permanent 20% from FY2027 (July 2026) onward. |
| Massachusetts | Live | Mar 10, 2023 | Competitive | 20% AGR (online) | Mobile wagering launched Mar 10, 2023 with multiple operators (DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars, Fanatics, bet365, WynnBET at various points). |
| Michigan | Live | Jan 22, 2021 | Competitive | 8.4% AGR (online) | Online/mobile sports betting is tethered to the 3 Detroit commercial casinos and tribes with compacts; each may operate (or partner for) one online skin. Flat 8.4% tax on adjusted gross sports betting receipts for commercial operators; tribal operators pay an equivalent rate under their compacts. |
| Missouri | Live | Dec 1, 2025 | Competitive | 10% AGR (online) | Up to 14 online "master licenses"/skins exist; 16 total licensees launched (14 tethered, plus DraftKings and Circa Sports as online-only), each paying an online license fee set by the Commission of up to $500,000. Uncapped promotional-expense deductions produced near-zero net tax in month one. |
| Nevada | Live | 2010 | Competitive | 6.75% GGR (online) | AB 466 (2001, Ch. 593), approved by Gov. Kenny Guinn on June 14, 2001, created the Interactive Gaming Act; most sections, including the "interactive gaming" definition now at NRS 463.016425, took effect July 1, 2001. That definition expressly excludes a race book or sports pool's use of board-approved communications technology to accept wagers originating within Nevada, leaving sports-pool account/phone wagering regulated under the existing Regulation 22 framework rather than the new interactive-gaming licensing regime AB 466 created for other games. (No "AB 471" sports-wagering bill was found in the 2001 session; a 2005 AB 471 later authorized unrelated in-casino mobile gaming devices.) Mobile sportsbook apps (American Wagering/Leroy's, William Hill, now Caesars, others) have been available statewide since 2010, but new accounts must still be registered in person at a licensed sportsbook; remote-registration proposals have not been adopted as of 2026. |
| New Hampshire | Live | Dec 30, 2019 | Monopoly State | 51% GGR (online) | Mobile sports wagering agents capped at 5 under 287-I:7; in practice DraftKings has operated as sole mobile agent under its exclusive multi-year contract (reported as a 51%-of-online- revenue bid), awarded via competitive bid per 287-I:3-4. |
| New Jersey | Live | Aug 1, 2018 | Competitive | 19.75% GGR (online) | Mobile wagering available statewide; 23 licensed online sportsbooks as of 2023.? |
| New York | Live | Jan 8, 2022 | Competitive | 51% GGR (online) | Nine mobile sportsbooks are licensed: Bally Bet, BetMGM, Caesars Sportsbook, DraftKings Sportsbook, theScore Bet, Fanatics Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook, Resorts World Bet, and Rush Street Interactive (BetRivers). Wagering is limited to bets placed from within NY and accepted by electronic equipment at a licensed commercial casino facility; betting on NY college teams/events and on high school sports is prohibited. Mobile sports wagering was authorized via Part Y of the FY2022 revenue budget bill (S2509-C/A3009-C), passed by both houses Apr. 6, 2021 and signed by Gov. Cuomo Apr. 19, 2021 as Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2021; launch followed Jan. 8, 2022 with the first licensed mobile operators live. |
| North Carolina | Live | Mar 11, 2024 | Competitive | 18% GGR (total) | Up to 12 interactive sports wagering operator licenses contemplated at passage; a later 2023 amendment required online operators to hold a written designation agreement with an in-state sports team/facility/governing body, narrowing the practical field. As of Oct. 2026 the Lottery Commission's approved-licensee list shows 7 interactive operators (FanDuel, BetMGM, DraftKings/Crown NC, Fanatics, bet365, theScore Bet, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' tribal gaming enterprise). |
| Ohio | Live | Jan 1, 2023 | Competitive | 20% GGR (online) | Type A online sports pool licenses; roughly 20+ mobile operators (FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, Bet365, Tipico, Betr, BetRivers, etc.) live at launch. |
| Oregon | Live | Oct 2019 | Monopoly State | Not a tax; this is the Lottery's commercial revenue split with its contracted mobile sportsbook operator. Under Section 11 of the Oregon Lottery-DraftKings contract, DraftKings receives 49% of net sports-wagering revenue and the Lottery (state) retains 51%; DraftKings' share could rise to 85-95% if the state's single-operator mobile model were opened to competition, per a 2023 legislative committee document, but no such change is confirmed as triggered. OTHER (online) | Oregon has no statute specifically authorizing sports wagering; the Lottery launched mobile sports betting ('Scoreboard') under its own pre-existing general authority to offer new Lottery games, through Lottery Commission rulemaking rather than a dedicated sports-betting enabling act. The Lottery contracts with a single statewide mobile sportsbook operator at a time. SBTech's 'Scoreboard' app launched Oct. 2019; DraftKings Sportsbook replaced it as the exclusive operator effective Jan. 18, 2022 (SBTech had been acquired by DraftKings in 2020). The app geofences bettors off tribal land and does not take bets on college sports, unlike the tribes' retail books. Under Section 11 of the Lottery-DraftKings contract, DraftKings receives 49% of net sports-betting revenue and the Lottery keeps 51%; DraftKings' share could rise to 85-95% if the state's monopoly model were opened to competition, though that has not happened. Sports betting remains a small share of overall Lottery revenue: around 4.4% of total gambling revenue, with sports-betting revenue near $75M for FY2023-24, up 36% year over year. |
| Pennsylvania | Live | May 28, 2019 | Competitive | 36% AGR (online) | Tethered to the 17 licensed casinos; SugarHouse (now Rivers Philadelphia) was first online operator; FanDuel followed July 22, 2019. |
| Rhode Island | Live | Jul 1, 2019 | Monopoly State | 51% GGR (online) | Gov. Raimondo signed companion bills S 0037 Sub A and H 5241 Sub A (enacted March 25, 2019, as P.L. 2019 ch. 7 and ch. 8) authorizing mobile sports betting, effective July 1, 2019. Revenue is split by statute 51% to the state, 32% to the state's authorized sports-wagering vendor, and 17% to the host facilities (Twin River and Twin River-Tiverton). |
| Tennessee | Live | Nov 2020 | Competitive | 1.85% HANDLE (online) | Legalized via Public Chapter 507 (signed/allowed to become law without the Governor's signature, effective 7/1/2019); regulated initially by the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation with SWC in an advisory role, then transferred to the independent Sports Wagering Council effective 1/1/2022 (Public Chapter 593). 13 operators were licensed as of February 5, 2024. |
| Vermont | Live | Jan 11, 2024 | Competitive | 20% AGR (online) | Enacted as 2023, No. 63, effective June 14, 2023. Launched Jan. 11, 2024 at 12:01 a.m. ET with 3 operators selected via competitive bid: DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Sportsbook. Statute allows 2-6 operators (31 V.S.A. §1302(b)(1)); minimum age 21. |
| Virginia | Live | Jan 21, 2021 | Competitive | 15% AGR (online) | Online-only market; 4-12 permits, $250,000 per 3-year permit. FanDuel/WFT and others launched Jan. 2021. |
| West Virginia | Live | Aug 26, 2019 | Competitive | 10% AGR (online) | Each licensed racetrack/resort casino may offer an affiliated online sportsbook. Mobile betting history runs in two stages -- Delaware North's "BetLucky" app (powered by Miomni Gaming, via third-party tech vendor Entergaming) launched December 27, 2018 serving the Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras sportsbooks, but went offline February 5, 2019 and was confirmed dead March 6, 2019 after a contract/technology dispute between Miomni and Entergaming (Delaware North later sued Miomni in Delaware Chancery Court). Full mobile relaunch followed in August 2019 with FanDuel going live August 26, 2019 (tied to a retail sportsbook, sources differ on whether The Greenbrier or Mardi Gras) and DraftKings (an online-only skin tied to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town) on August 28, 2019. The August 26, 2019 FanDuel date is used here as "launched" for continuous statewide mobile availability; a narrower definition could instead point to the Dec. 27, 2018 BetLucky date. |
| Wyoming | Live | Sep 2021 | Competitive | 10% GGR (online) | Statewide online/mobile wagering (no retail requirement); operators must already be licensed/active in 3+ other states; the Commission must issue at least 5 mobile licenses. Minimum age is confirmed 18 by the statute itself (W.S. §9-24-105), not 21 as the LSO's own interim-committee memo mistakenly states elsewhere. Permit fees: $100,000 initial/5-year, $50,000 renewal for operators; $10,000/$5,000 for vendors. "Sporting event" is statutorily defined (W.S. §9-24-101(a)(xi)) to include "electronic sports," so esports wagering is authorized under this same framework. |
| Delaware | Limited | Jan 3, 2024 | Monopoly State | 50% OTHER (online) | Mobile/online sports betting is run by the Lottery as an extension of the same sports-lottery program as retail; BetRivers (Rush Street Interactive, selected by the Delaware State Lottery in Aug. 2023, replacing 888) is the sole online sportsbook operator, operating as the Lottery's exclusive mobile-wagering contract partner rather than as one of several independently licensed operators. Soft-launched Dec. 27, 2023 and fully live Jan. 3, 2024 at Delaware Park, Bally's Dover Casino Resort, and Harrington Raceway & Casino. No statute specific to mobile/online sports wagering was enacted; Delaware relies on the internet-gaming authority already created by the 2012 Gaming Competitiveness Act, which lets video-lottery agents offer "internet versions" of Lottery-run games, rather than separate mobile-specific legislation. House Bill 365 (2024) would have let each of the 3 casinos partner with up to 2 online sportsbook operators ($500,000 five-year license fee plus 18% of adjusted revenue) but died in the House Appropriations Committee in 2024 after the Lottery and BetRivers opposed it. BetRivers remained the sole operator as of October 2026.? |
| Mississippi | Limited | Jul 21, 2018 | Hybrid | 8% GGR (online) | Mobile/online wagering is authorized only on the physical premises of a licensed casino (geofenced apps usable only while on-site), not statewide. The House has passed statewide mobile-wagering bills (e.g., the Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act, H.B. 4074) in multiple sessions through 2026, but the Senate Gaming Committee (chaired by opponents including Sen. David Blount) has killed every Senate companion or House-passed bill to date, often because it became entangled with competing sweepstakes-casino-ban legislation in conference. An initial wagering-account registration must be completed in person at the casino's premises before the account can be used, even though placing wagers afterward is app-based. |
| Montana | Limited | May 2020 | Monopoly State | Same state-lottery-monopoly structure as sports_retail (mobile play is geofenced to licensed premises, not a standalone statewide product): no separate operator GGR tax; licensed host locations receive a 3% commission on gross sales, remainder to the State Lottery Fund. OTHER (online) | The Sports Bet Montana app is geofenced with GeoComply Bluetooth beacons to the physical space of licensed premises; there is no statewide/off-premises mobile wagering. Gov. Steve Bullock signed HB 725 (Ch. 284, L. 2019) on May 3, 2019, with an immediate effective date. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' new Class III compact (DOI-approved Jan. 26, 2026) separately gives the state and CSKT concurrent jurisdiction to regulate sports wagering on the Flathead Reservation, a carve-out from the Lottery's statewide monopoly.? |
| Washington | Limited | Dec 9, 2021 | Monopoly Tribal | Same tribal-compact structure as sports_retail above; mobile sports wagering is likewise confined to tribal lands/apps under the same 2020-2021 compact amendments, with no separate state revenue-share tax mechanism identified. OTHER (online) | Mobile wagering permitted only via geofencing to tribal casino property (not statewide online); no commercial/non-tribal online sportsbook authorized. A tribal operator challenge to this exclusivity (Maverick Gaming) was dismissed; cert. denied by SCOTUS Oct. 6, 2025. |
| Wisconsin | Legal, not launched | Monopoly Tribal | Pre-2026, only the narrow "hub-and-spoke" exception applied: mobile/electronic sports and event wagers were excluded from the statutory definition of an illegal "bet" only where the wagering server sat on qualifying tribal trust land under a pre-April 1, 1993 compact, geofenced to each tribe's own lands (not statewide). As of fiscal year 2025 (ended Sept. 30, 2025), the Oneida Nation was the only tribe offering mobile wagering this way, limited to its own reservation land in Brown and Outagamie counties. Gov. Evers signed Assembly Bill 601 as 2025 Wisconsin Act 247 on April 9, 2026, extending the hub-and-spoke model statewide: a mobile wager placed anywhere in Wisconsin is routed through a server on tribal land, so the bet is deemed to occur under IGRA/tribal-compact authority rather than under the state's non-tribal gaming ban. Each of the 11 tribes must individually renegotiate its compact (mobile revenue sharing expected near the existing 1.75%-6.5% land-based range) and secure Bureau of Indian Affairs approval; Gov. Evers (who is not seeking re-election, term ending Jan. 4, 2027) began compact talks June 1, 2026. As of October 2026, no tribe has launched statewide mobile wagering under Act 247 and no launch date has been set. A taxpayer lawsuit (reported filers include a taxpayer association and a conservative legal group) challenges Act 247 as exceeding legislative/gubernatorial authority under the state's 1993 constitutional gambling-ban amendment and as an unconstitutional racial classification, because legality turns on the wagering device being physically located on tribal land.? | ||
| Hawaii | Prohibited | HB 1308 (2025) would have authorized a minimum of 4 online sportsbooks at a 10% tax on adjusted gross receipts; it passed the House 35-15 and the Senate 15-10 but died in a conference committee on the chambers' differing tax/fee terms by the final day of session (Apr. 25, 2025). Successor bills HB 2570/SB 3303 (2026, 6 licenses, 15% tax) advanced through committee votes before stalling in the Senate Judiciary Committee. | |||
| Idaho | Prohibited | Same constitutional and statutory bar as retail sports wagering; no online carve-out exists. | |||
| Utah | Prohibited | Online sports wagering is "online gambling" under §76-9-1401(14); offering it to a Utah resident is a 3rd-degree felony under §76-9-1404. | |||
| Alabama | Not authorized | No statute authorizes mobile/online sports wagering. 2024 HB 152 would have authorized online wagering tethered to licensed casinos; failed in Senate. No 2026 bill filed. | |||
| Alaska | Not authorized | A bill (HB 145) would let the Dept. of Revenue license up to 10 online sportsbooks at a 20% tax on adjusted gross revenue, with a $100,000 license fee and a 21+ minimum age. It died in committee in 2025 and was reintroduced for the 2026 session without passing.? | |||
| California | Not authorized | Proposition 27 (statewide online/mobile sports betting, backed by DraftKings/FanDuel) failed at the Nov. 2022 general election, roughly 82% no — one of the largest margins of defeat for any California ballot measure. A tribal-led coalition is reportedly preparing a new measure, with 2028 now seen as more realistic than 2026. | |||
| Georgia | Not authorized | Repeated bills (SB 386/SR 579 in 2024; HR 450/HB 686 in 2025 and 2026) would have authorized online sports wagering pending a constitutional amendment; none has passed. See legislation.pending_summary fact. | |||
| Minnesota | Not authorized | Same statutory basis as sports_retail; no mobile/online sports wagering statute exists. No operator holds a Minnesota sports-wagering license, and the 2026 legislative session closed without passing a bill. | |||
| Nebraska | Not authorized | NRGC: "Online and mobile sports wagering are not currently authorized in Nebraska." | |||
| New Mexico | Not authorized | No statewide mobile/online sports-wagering statute exists; the Gaming Control Act does not cover sports wagering and no tribal compact provision for online/mobile sports betting was identified. The Wikipedia "legality of gambling types" table lists New Mexico's "Online" sports-betting column as "No." | |||
| North Dakota | Not authorized | State law prohibits online gaming in North Dakota; no statewide mobile or online sports wagering exists. A statewide online/mobile route (HCR 3002) failed in the ND House, 70-24.? | |||
| Oklahoma | Not authorized | Same as sports_retail; no mobile/online sports wagering statute exists. Gov. Stitt has proposed statewide mobile licensing (2023 plan, SB 1434 2024) but nothing has passed. | |||
| South Carolina | Not authorized | H.3625 (SC Sports Wagering Act, prefiled Dec. 2024) would create an 8-license online market taxed at 12.5% of AGR and set min age 18; heard by a House Ways and Means subcommittee in April 2025 with no vote. Senate companion S.444 received a 2026 committee hearing but no vote. Rep. Chris Murphy, the bill's chief sponsor, resigned his seat in January 2026. | |||
| South Dakota | Not authorized | No statewide mobile/online sports wagering statute; wagering is confined to licensed Deadwood/tribal premises infrastructure. | |||
| Texas | Not authorized | HJR 134/SJR 65 (sports-betting-only constitutional amendment) and HJR 137/SJR 82 (broader gambling/casino package) were filed in the 2025 (89th) session; none received a committee vote. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has repeatedly said the Senate lacks the Republican votes needed. Next regular session is 2027. |