A bill is currently making its way through the West Virginia legislature to set the table for legal sports betting in the Mountaineer state.
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As the world waits for the Supreme Court to rule on PASPA, a look at where each U.S. state stands on sports betting and their readiness should the law be overturned.
Read More . . .After hearings in the West Virginia House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Wednesday, West Virginia’s legal sports betting bill passed votes in both chambers, advancing the measure to the House Finance Committee.
Read More . . .Gov. Tom Wolf is urging a federal judge to toss out a bid by the owners of Hollywood Casino to kill part of Pennsylvania's controversial gambling expansion law.
Read More . . .On Tuesday, the casinos won a concession in the battle that could be worth an extra $60 million when the sponsor of the video gambling proposal agreed to include a provision allowing casinos to offer sports betting.
Read More . . .As the parade of sports betting bills continues in the first five weeks of 2018, the “Show-Me” state has joined the march. On January 29, Missouri’s legislature saw the introduction of a placeholder bill to start a conversation about legal sports betting in Missouri.
Read More . . .The National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball have officially registered against an Iowa House bill aimed at legalizing sports betting in the event the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a federal law that bans it in most states.
Read More . . .Florida’s House of Representatives has traditionally been far less enthusiastic about gambling expansion, and Tuesday saw the House Tourism & Gaming Control Subcommittee approve PCB TGC 18-01, a new version of the bill it put forward last year.
Read More . . .Last week Kansas’s Committee on Federal and State Affairs introduced House Bill 2533 (HB 2533), which would make sports betting on professional and collegiate sports legal in Kansas — but only “on the premises of a racetrack gaming facility.”
Read More . . .Are loot boxes gambling? Three Washington Senators are asking the local gambling authority to make a decision.
Read More . . .The headline story from New York State’s senate hearing on legal sports betting on Wednesday was NBA Executive Vice President Dan Spillane’s continued advocacy for a 1% tax on total betting handle for the NBA and other leagues.
Read More . . .Lawmakers in the US state of Massachusetts have become the latest to propose legislation that would ready the state for the demands of legalised sports betting.
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