Part of United States
The District of Columbia is supervised by the Office of Lottery and Gaming, which trades publicly as the DC Lottery. It is a single agency covering lottery games, sports betting and charitable games, and it also administers the retailer network through which lottery products are sold. The District is a useful case study because it moved early on sports wagering and did so through its lottery agency rather than by creating a new commission. That choice put the same body in charge of operating a monopoly product and supervising a competitive one, a combination that has drawn scrutiny in several jurisdictions that took the same route. This profile records the agency and its published functions and leaves the detail as honest gaps. Licence categories, fees, tax rates, advertising rules and compliance obligations have not yet been verified against primary sources. Anyone assessing the District should note that its small geographic footprint makes geolocation and cross-border leakage a live operational issue in a way it is not for a large state, since a bettor can move between three jurisdictions with different rules in the course of a short walk.
Sports Wagering Lottery, D.C. Code § 36-621.01 et seq.
The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS and their players' unions have sent a joint memo to state gaming regulators asking for mandatory lifetime exclusions, a shared list and a single reporting channel. Five states already do something like it. The memo does not reach the bettors on prediction markets.
Government of the District of Columbia
Council of the District of Columbia