Since then, at least nine sportsbooks have launched in the state, with more expected in the near future. PASPA had acted as a federal ban on sports betting in almost every state in the country but when the Supreme Court removed it, each state could decide its own sports betting laws as they wished. In fact, the state was one of the first in the US to introduce a legal sports betting bill, not long after the removal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018. Online sports betting is legal in West Virginia.
