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Alabama's Path to Legal Sports Betting: Key Updates
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1/10/2025
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All right, so February 4th is a target date for an update on sports betting in Alabama.
00:04
You guys have a column up over at legalsportsreport.com.
00:07
What do you think happens when that date comes?
00:09
Do they push forward or is this just something that will be attempted and failing yet again?
00:15
Yeah, it's a good question.
00:16
That's kind of been the theme of a lot of these states we still have left on the board, right?
00:20
But with Alabama ahead of their session, actually, the new leader of the Senate,
00:25
Garland Gudger, I apologize if I'm butchering your last name, Mr. Gudger,
00:30
he came out and said that he sees some optimism in the legislature this year for a gambling bill.
00:36
Alabama is one of those states that doesn't even have a lottery.
00:39
So really, when you talk about sports betting,
00:42
it's really hard to just get momentum in general around the idea of further legalizing gambling.
00:47
But he did say he thinks there could be appetite for it this year.
00:50
Obviously, you have a lot of new faces in the legislature.
00:53
In the past, we've seen kind of these big, comprehensive gambling packages that sometimes
00:59
include sports betting, sometimes don't throughout several points in the process,
01:02
just because, again, of how hard it is to really get any form of gambling legalized in the state.
01:08
But I would say the fact that the leader of the Senate kind of seems to be leaning on board or
01:13
indicating that he's at least open to pushing the agenda forward if he has more,
01:18
if there's more of an appetite in the legislature for it is definitely a good sign.
01:21
In the past, I think there's been a lot of dissension among different lawmakers in terms of,
01:27
you know, not just whether we want sports betting legalized or gambling,
01:31
other forms of gambling, but what we're going to do with the money.
01:33
I think that's been kind of a big, you know, caused a lot of a big roadblock.
01:37
There is some people want to use it on education.
01:40
Some other lawmakers want to use it to expand Medicaid,
01:44
different mental health initiatives as well.
01:46
So essentially, once they would even get to the point where they pass
01:51
a gambling bill that would include sports betting,
01:53
they then would have to bring it to the ballot,
01:56
and then the people would have to pick if they want it.
01:58
So it's not as simple as just are they going to pass a bill?
02:01
Is it going to become legal? Are we going to get it?
02:02
There's still a lot of hoops to jump through.
02:04
But I would say this session, you know,
02:06
probably has as good a chance as any out of the previous ones in Alabama.
02:10
And remember, with this stuff, you never really know what's going to happen.
02:13
Sometimes we're talking about just a little momentum,
02:16
and then all of a sudden it snowballs into,
02:18
hey, we have the next big state that just legalized.
02:20
So I would say there's hope if you're in Alabama,
02:23
but nothing super material yet on the legislative front.
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