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Category: Legislation
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More Prisons, Gambling Addiction Funding Lacking In WH 2027 Budget
As the U.S. grapples with a wide-ranging mental health crisis, including worsening gambling addiction, the White House seeks to expand the nation’s prison system. The 2027 fiscal year budget request shows a strong preference for prisons and punitive state capacity, while cutting or restructuring behavioral health infrastructure. The budget could have a devastating impact on…
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‘You’re A Sucker’: Lawmaker Tells Teen Sons To Avoid Betting Apps
Does betting make you a “sucker”? One prominent Kentucky politician thinks so. More and more people are thinking that legal betting apps are basically, as one former industry employee put it, “parasites with us in our pockets.” The State of Kentucky, on April 1, advanced legislation to modestly reform its online sports betting market. The…
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Kentucky Sports Betting Legislation Would Raise Legal Age
Kentucky sports betting legislation aims to protect residents from gambling-related harms and prediction markets offering a stock-market-style form of wagering under federal oversight. House Bill 904, the Wagering Consumer Protection Act, was introduced on March 4 by Representative Michael Meredith and Representative Matthew Koch, both Republicans. It cleared the legislature on April 1 and awaits…
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New York Wants Sportsbooks To Hunt You More Sustainably
New York is weighing draft regulations, which could be adopted this year, that would require gambling platforms to, in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s words, “take real action” against gambling harm. Despite a fluffy press release, New York would still allow the fox to guard the henhouse. Hochul’s statement is an admission that the industry is not…
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Minnesota Could Jail Prediction Market Operators Under New Bill
A new bipartisan bill in Minnesota is arguably the most restrictive proposal in the U.S. to date regarding prediction markets. Rather than regulate prediction markets, Minnesota would criminalize them. In December, bill sponsor Sen. John Marty (40, DFL) told GamblingHarm.org that a bill was in the works. “We must stop prediction markets from taking over…
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