by Jerad Paparella | Mar 11, 2022 1:12 pm | Legal
The Seminole Tribe of Florida released a YouTube video on Thursday thanking the voters of Florida for not supporting commercial sportsbook ballot initiatives. The video’s release is the latest part of a long and complicated battle between the Seminole Tribe of Florida...
by Jerad Paparella | Mar 10, 2022 2:15 pm | Legal
A pair of bills proposed by Sen. Greg Albritton – SB 293 and SB 294 – were found favorable by Alabama’s Senate Tourism Committee and now move to the Senate floor. The bills would allow for in-person and mobile sports betting through tribal entities at a...
by Jerad Paparella | Mar 9, 2022 12:53 pm | Legal
New York launched their mobile sportsbooks in early January; since then, New York has turned over handles of $1 billion or more in both months after the mobile launch. New York’s streak of $1B+ handles looks like it should continue through March, a historically strong...
by Evan Thornton | Mar 9, 2022 11:43 am | Legal
New Minnesota bill could bring regulated sports betting. The bill will allow for mobile sports betting state-wide. HP 778 has bipartisan supports to see it passed. SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Some major progress is being made Minnesota’s legal sports betting...
by Jerad Paparella | Mar 8, 2022 1:38 pm | Legal
Assemblyman Gary Pretlow introduced an amendment that would cut sportsbooks’ effective tax rate from 51% to 25% by 2024; Sen. Joe Addabbo presented its sister amendment in the Senate. The amendment would increase the number of online sportsbook skins to cut the tax...
by Jerad Paparella | Mar 7, 2022 3:23 pm | Legal
HB 3008 passed an important vote in the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee Wednesday by a vote of 28 yay – 3 nay. The bill would alter Oklahoma’s tribal gaming compacts to allow Oklahoma’s tribes to offer in-person sports betting at...