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.
Read More . . .In what could end up being a seminal moment for sports gambling in America, the NBA on Wednesday formally requested a set of laws that could be the basis for professional sports leagues pushing for national legalized wagering on games.
Read More . . .Former US Representative Ron Paul (L, R-Texas) writes in a recent Newsweek editorial that Congress should excuse itself from legislating gambling, and instead reserve such powers to the states.
Read More . . .Even on a state-by-state basis, any expansion of legal sports betting poses new hope and new peril for daily fantasy sports.
Read More . . .South Carolina's Democratic lawmakers still hope the state will one day legalize sports gambling, but they admit the risks may be too high for Republicans to take a chance on it this session.
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