A proposed gambling bill for the 2019 Legislative Session is dead, multiple sources told Florida Politics on Monday evening. “I would say it’s 99% dead,” said one lawmaker who was familiar with the behind-the-scenes talks but was not authorized to speak on the record.
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A state legislator behind a plan to legalize sports gambling is making his case that Ohio should join neighboring states in permitting such wagering, and that the Ohio Lottery Commission is the legal and best option to serve as the regulator.
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The Louisiana Senate voted 24-15 to permit sports betting Tuesday (April 30), potentially opening the door to the largest expansion of gambling the state has seen since the early 1990s
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee plans to let legislation to allow sports betting become law without his signature, putting a state that has largely shied from expanding gambling in position to become the first to offer an online-only sportsbook.
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A state legislator behind a plan to legalize sports gambling is making his case that Ohio should join neighboring states in permitting such wagering, and that the Ohio Lottery Commission is the legal and best option to serve as the regulator.
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When Democrat Ned Lamont was elected governor, advocates were emboldened and believed they could finally legalize two items that had eluded them — sports betting and recreational marijuana. But with slightly more than five weeks remaining in the legislative session, those issues are no longer guarantees as lawmakers fight over details and scramble to count votes.
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DeSantis started at 9 a.m. by meeting with multiple representatives of the tribe, including Chairman Marcellus Osceola; Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming; and Jim Shore, the Seminoles’ general counsel, tribe spokesman Gary Bitner told The News Service of Florida.
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Most Louisianans want to move from the legalization of fantasy sports to the legalization of sportsbooks. The Louisiana State Legislature has several gambling bills in various committees. Most would legalize sports gambling in much the same way as daily fantasy sports.
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A recent opinion by the U.S. Justice Department has put a handful of states in danger of losing at least $220 million in annual lottery profits that they use to fund college scholarships, senior citizen services and a variety of other programs.
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) flip-flopping story about its Wire Act interpretation is getting a bit old, and there’s a lot of money on the line. A federal judge wants to know if they really mean for state lotteries to be exempted from the act, because it could mean million in profits lost.
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Mobile or no mobile? That is the question. And there doesn’t appear to be an easy answer. But on Thursday, Illinois lawmakers heard detailed, compelling testimony about why they should include a statewide mobile component should they choose to legalize sports betting.
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“A lot of the analysis is not just ‘is there something?’ It’s ‘is there nothing?” said Quinton Singleton, chief operating officer of Bet.Works, which provides sports book technology throughout North America. He spoke Thursday at a panel discussion titled “Integrity – How A Regulated Sports Betting Sector Guards Against Corruption” at the Betting on Sports America conference at the Meadowlands Exposition Center.
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