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Texas Faces Uphill Battle in Legalizing Sports Betting
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3/12/2025
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Let's end with Texas here.
00:02
I know that has been a lot of back and forth in the state legislature trying to get this
00:06
thing approved.
00:07
We've seen some pushback and now maybe a new House bill.
00:10
I don't want to use the word circumvent, but it does seem like there are a lot of lawmakers
00:14
in Texas that are trying to get this through one way or the other.
00:17
Yeah, Texas is just one of those things.
00:19
Early on this year, we talked about this huge giant momentum, wave of momentum coming in
00:24
Texas because, you know, there's millions of dollars being poured into it in the lobbying
00:28
efforts.
00:30
There's millions of lawmakers talking about it.
00:31
There's, you know, all just excitement around it.
00:34
You know, voters seem to want it in the polls.
00:37
And yet we're still in the situation where Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is at the
00:41
helm of the Senate and decides what is to be discussed on the Senate floor.
00:46
In 2023, we saw a sports betting bill pass the House.
00:49
A very similar bill is in the House again this year.
00:53
We've also seen a rep come out and say, you know, we're going to bury this six feet deep
00:57
and make sure it doesn't pass the House.
00:59
So we'll see if it can even get any sort of legs there.
01:01
But now we have the Senate companion bill.
01:03
And again, that's going to be kind of just, you have to get a lot of support from the
01:08
Republican Party because of Dan Patrick, who says he will not bring up a bill that does
01:13
not have a majority of Republican support and the GOP platform in Texas is anti-gambling.
01:19
So you know, you're going to have to, there's going to have to be a lot of people swayed
01:23
on different, on that side of the aisle.
01:27
And just to, you know, it is, as we talk about all the time, a bipartisan issue, no matter
01:31
what you need people on both sides of the aisle to come together and say, yeah, let's
01:34
get this done because of the opposition on both sides of the aisle.
01:38
So it's a very complicated state, very complicated issue.
01:42
We'll see what happens.
01:43
But yeah, the bills are in play.
01:44
I'm sure we'll get some discussion in Texas this year.
01:47
But I, you know, just because I don't see Patrick budging, I don't think we're going
01:52
to see Texas legalizing sports betting this year.
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