The daily fantasy sports industry notched some wins but didn't capture a majority of states after an all-out push this year to maintain its legality amid concerns the net games amount to illegal sports betting operations. Six states – Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Indiana and Virginia – enacted laws legalizing and regulating games offered by Boston’s DraftKings, New York’s FanDuel and dozens of different smaller operators. They join Kansas, which passed a law legalizing the games last year.

But 21 other legislatures, including Arizona, Florida, Maryland and Washington, declined to do so this year before adjourning. And 6 more are still in session and will enact regulations, including key, high population states like California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

In New York, a bill awaits the governor’s signature and in Massachusetts, the state attorney general issued consumer protection rules earlier this year but other fantasy sports-related bills also are before lawmakers. Many bills introduced this year would cover not only controversial daily fantasy sports games, but traditional, season long fantasy sports competitions played by millions.

Some, like a suggestion that died in Hawaii, would have banned fantasy games outright. Others, like proposals in Maryland, would have called for a voter referendum. Most bills, however, treat the games as distinct from legalized gambling and impose various requirements like licensing and registration fees, taxes on revenues, independent audits, minimum age requirements and state oversight.

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