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Maryland Pushes for Online Casino Legislation Progress
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1/6/2025
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potential online casino progress here. In fact, one of the state legislature, from what I'm reading
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here, said this could happen without the sky falling. So it must seem like there's some
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opposition coming in a big way for this to happen. Yeah, so first of all, right now we're heating up
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in legislative season. A lot of them are taking off on Wednesday to start, so we're going to be
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talking a lot about legislation here in the coming weeks, Craig. Just kind of sports betting in states
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that we haven't seen legalized yet, online casino in a lot of states, sports betting taxes, what have
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you. First thing to note on online casino is there's only a few markets in the country that
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have it, including Michigan where I am, and it's been a lot slower to pick up legalization-wise
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than the industry might have hoped, and I don't think that's really going to change, especially
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with the new headwinds against online gambling. You know, we've talked about it here at the U.S.
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Senate hearing, the U.S. federal bills targeting online gambling, the likes, and just general,
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you know, public feeling right now is kind of anti-gambling, and so that's going to affect a lot
01:04
of these state-level discussions. But in Maryland, we've got a former representative who introduced
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a bill last year for online casino and actually got it through the Maryland House delegate Vanessa
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Atterbury. She's introducing another bill. It will begin in her Ways and Means Committee that
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she chairs and held a very lengthy hearing last year to discuss it, and yeah, she said, you know,
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we can do this. We need to do this. There's illegal gambling happening, but yeah, to your point, she
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said we can do it without the sky falling. It's important that we do this. She talks about how
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she's not a gambler, but she'll go to casinos for events and stuff to kind of quell the
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cannibalization discussions that we also heard in Maryland last year. Now, the problem here is the
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Senate in Maryland. Senator Ron Watson introduced a pretty similar bill to Atterbury last year,
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but the Senate is less friendly to gaming it appears for right now. It did not even take up
02:01
Atterbury's bill, and Watson, you know, went to the National Council of Legislators from Gaming
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States last year, talked about kind of lessons learned. He said there's a lot of campaigning
02:12
that needs to be done internally in the Senate kind of to educate what this means and why it's
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important. We'll see if anything changes on the Senate floor this year. We'll see if the House can
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kind of redo last year. It was a pretty overwhelming vote for in the House, so we'll see if that
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wave kind of continues over, but again, a lot of headwinds against online gambling, so I'd
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be kind of surprised if this does pass, but Maryland is certainly one of the states to
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watch in terms of states that could get it done this year.
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