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Category: Legislation
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Online Sportsbooks Amass $48M War Chest For State Elections
A group of powerful online gambling companies has amassed at least $48 million to influence this election cycle at the state level. The spending could have a significant impact on public health efforts to rein in the state-sanctioned online sports betting industry. While potentially safer than offshore platforms and prediction markets, existing state regulation of…
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Exclusive: New Ohio Bill Would Abolish Online Sports Betting
A forthcoming bill in Ohio would abolish online sports betting under state law. The bill, dubbed the Save Ohio Sports Act, would require sports betting to be confined to in-person at Ohio’s four casinos. Text of the proposal wasn’t available as of late Tuesday, April 7. According to a description of the forthcoming bill that…
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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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