All Bets Are Off On Passing Of A Sports Betting Bill
May 15, 2023 6:12AM CDT
FILE – Fans sit inside Arrowhead Stadium before an NFL football game on Dec. 12, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas legislators were close Wednesday, April 27, 2022, to approving a measure authorizing sports betting and wanted most of the state’s revenues from it to go to efforts to lure professional football’s Kansas City, Missouri-based Chiefs to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel File)
(MISSOURINET) – All bets are off. Another session of the Missouri Legislature has ended without passing a bill that would allow sports betting. Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden says Senator Denny Hoskins is “solely responsible” for sports betting not passing this year.
Hoskins has blocked sports betting bills from crossing the finish line because he wants the regulation of video slot machines to be included in them.
