A new sports betting bill to regulate mobile sportsbooks in Arkansas was introduced on Monday, even with the Arkansas State Legislature adjourning on April 30 for the year. This gives the new proposal ten days to get through both chambers and onto the desk of Governor Asa Hutchinson which is a monumental task to achieve in such a short time frame.
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Rep. Lee Johnson on Monday introduced House Bill 1942, which would permit online sports wagering in Arkansas. The bill says “the state would benefit substantially from authorizing online sports pools, to be conducted solely by casino licenses within the state and online sports pool operators with whom the casino licensees have a contractual agreement.”
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Nearly a year after the Washington Legislature voted to legalize sports betting, terms have been agreed for the first sportsbook to open. It will be inside one of the two Tulalip tribal casinos alongside Interstate 5 north of Everett.
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Proposed online sports betting laws in New York will make it tough for operators and bettors to turn a profit.
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A coalition of bowling alleys, bars and other businesses that sell lottery games, and mayors is pushing back and rejecting any plan to allow Ohio’s four casinos to control sports gambling in the state. This comes as a proposal on sports gambling is set to come out of the Senate soon.
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On Tuesday night, the Alabama Senate passed a gaming bill that includes sports betting. Senate Bill 310 had its third reading in the Senate where the measure passed by a vote of 23-9. The bill will now move forward to the House of Representatives for consideration.
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Florida’s jai alai frontons, quarter horse and harness horse racing tracks could choose not to conduct live events and still be able to operate poker and slot machine rooms under a bill unanimously approved by the Senate Regulated Industries Committee on Monday.
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Maryland sports betting could become operational as early as this fall. That’s after state lawmakers finally came to terms on how to regulate the expanded gambling.
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The Arizona Legislature late Monday approved a key part of a plan that will provide new opportunities for gambling at casinos owned by Native American tribes and for the first time allow sports betting both on and off reservations.
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It appears that Vermont is now interested in testing the waters for legal sports betting within their borders, as a new piece of legislation has been introduced intended to allow for regulated sportsbooks to begin taking wagers as soon as this summer.
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Less than three weeks after the first retail sportsbooks opened in the state, two North Carolina lawmakers filed a bill this past week to expand the opportunity statewide for a very noble reason.
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Amid ongoing talks with the Seminole Tribe about a gambling deal, Senate President Wilton Simpson wants to move forward with other measures that would create a state gaming commission and lift a long-debated requirement on pari-mutuel facilities.
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