Lawmakers tweaked a gambling regulation bill on Thursday that would allow sports betting, excluding the home games of instate teams in an effort to pick up enough supportive votes to pass it. The new measure would apply to schools including the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Creighton University Bluejays.
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Unlike in Virginia, sports betting is illegal in North Carolina except on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ tribal land in Cherokee and Murphy. But now, politicians across the state are realizing the money-making potential of legalizing betting to stimulate the economy and help fund education.
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The gaming compact — if ratified by the state Legislature next week and later approved by federal regulators — would make Florida the largest state in the nation to legalize sports betting.
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The Tennessee Education Lottery (TEL) on Tuesday announced it is considering approving four new online sportsbooks — including two that offer peer-to-peer betting. If approved, they would start as traditional online sportsbooks.
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The Louisiana House of Representatives approved a bill to set tax rates for in-person and online sports betting, the first of three bills that need to be approved before sports betting can be legalized in the state. HB 697 will now be sent to the Senate for a potential final approval before it can be signed into law by Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.
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If Alabama voters are in favor of Alabama sports betting come 2022, the launch of all gaming industries approved would likely happen in the last quarter of 2023. Senate Bill 310, which was passed in the Senate on April 13, also has one day left to pass in the House. This proposal names the Alabama Gaming Commission as the regulator of the sports gaming industry and allots its revenue to the Gaming Trust Fund.
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Despite gambling interests throwing millions of dollars and dozens of lobbyists at the effort, lawmakers who authored bills to bring casinos and sports betting to Texas said they won’t become law this year. Dallas was, and remains, a top target for a casino destination resort.
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State lawmakers would have to sign off on the agreement, which is known as a “compact.” A special session to consider the issue is scheduled for May 17.
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In the press conference, Sen. Schuring laid out many of the details of his proposed sports betting bill. This is a bill that he and many in Congress are confident in and would like to get passed by the end of June 2021.
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A package of bills that would allow voters to decide whether to legalize a statewide lottery, six new casinos and sports wagering passed out of a House committee on Thursday, moving it to within one step — albeit a big one — from passage. But even as it moved forward, behind the scenes, issues remained with some of the bill’s language, and multiple sources involved with the negotiations told APR that the issues could derail the legislation.
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Sports betting could begin at tribal casinos in Washington state by next fall. The Washington Indian Gaming Association says two tribes — the latest being the Suquamish Tribe — have now reached tentative agreements with the state gambling commission and it expects more agreements in the near future.
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Tennessee House Bill 1267, which would move sports betting regulatory duties to an entity currently operating underneath the Tennessee Education Lottery, cleared the House Government Operations Committee by an oral vote in super brief hearing Monday. The bill would hand regulatory duties to the Sports Wagering Advisory Council, which was created under the 2019 Sports Gaming Act. The SWAC currently has merely an advisory role to the lottery, which is the regulator.
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