#State House

Sports betting is yet again on the table in Kentucky this new year. A bill introduced Thursday in Frankfort wouldlegalize betting on sporting events.Should it pass, people in the state could bet on the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, NASCAR, MLS, college sports, the Olympics and more options, as well as gamble on fantasy sports and poker. House Bill 106…

B aseball's all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, has a new hustle-legal sports betting. On New Year's Day, the Cincinnati Reds legend, who was permanently banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling on the game while he was manager of the team, placed the first legal sports wager in Ohio. True to form, Rose put action on the Reds to win the 2023 World…

The new bill would generate the necessary framework for building the Texas Gaming Commission. The new body would be responsible for supervising legalized gambling in the state that continues to celebrate its "Wild West" roots. Originally, the amendment was pre-filed by state senator Carol Alvarado last November. At the moment, the bill does not…

House Bill 106 was introduced on 5 January 2023 and sponsored by representatives Derrick Graham, Cherlynn Stevenson and Rachel Roberts. If passed, the bill would add twenty-six amendments to the current law and enact thirteen new sections related to online sports, poker and fantasy gambling. The bill would enable sports betting to be provided by…

A new Colorado law could double the amount of taxes the state collects from sports betting in the coming fiscal year. The Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSB) estimated last week that Colorado will net $24 million in fiscal year 2022-23 (which ends June 30) from sports betting, compared to $12.4 million in 2021-22. The bump is…

House Bill 581 was sponsored and introduced on 4 January 2023. It was sponsored by Representative Phil Christofanelli. If passed, the bill would repeal three sections of the current law and enact seventeen new ones related to sports gambling. The bill would enable land-based casinos to offer sports betting as well as to partner with suppliers to…

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 19, 2022 (State House News Service) - State regulators voted unanimously Monday to award the second in-person sports betting license in Massachusetts to MGM Springfield, allowing the casino to expand its offerings despite "simmering" concerns among city leaders that the facility has not lived up to the jobs and economic…

AUSTIN, Texas - Rick Perry is hoping to convince the Lone Star State to legalize sports betting. Perry, who served as Governor of Texas from 2000-2015 and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Trump Administration from 2017-2019, has joined the Sports Betting Alliance and says the time is right. The Sports Betting Alliance says Texas has an…

BOSTON (State House News Service) - Most of the attention paid to its work recently has focused on implementation of legal sports betting, but the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has plenty of other weighty matters pending before it, from the potential expansion of Encore Boston Harbor's gaming footprint to two applications for horse racing…

BOSTON - Regulators heard from more than 20 would-be Massachusetts sports betting providers on Thursday, with no consensus emerging on how temporary mobile licenses should be awarded or on whether the Bay State should allow all wagering to begin at the same time vs. a staggered start between mobile and/or retail operators. A law permitting sports…