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Texas Sports Betting Hopes Dim Amid Legislative Pushback
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3/17/2025
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And finally, Pat, I wish we had better news for our friends in Texas, but it does not
00:04
appear we're getting sports betting anytime soon in the Lone Star State.
00:07
Yeah, I think when this session started up, or even before the session, I was coming on
00:13
talking about all the good, positive news for those hopeful for sports betting legalization
00:17
in Texas.
00:18
And I think we all took that with a grain of salt, even though it was a giant snowball,
00:22
it felt like.
00:23
You know, you had Governor Greg Abbott come out, say there was no, you know, he's no objection
00:27
to it.
00:28
You had millions of dollars poured in from the likes of the Adelsons.
00:33
So there was plenty of movement there.
00:36
In recent weeks, it's kind of snowballing the other way.
00:39
Of course, the whole time, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's been presiding over the Senate.
00:44
We've all known all along that it wasn't, he's not going to call it up for a vote unless
00:49
there's a majority of Republicans in the Senate who support it.
00:52
And the GOP platform in Texas is anti-gambling.
00:55
So Dan Patrick was an immovable object to begin with.
00:59
But then you look back at 2023, there was a sports betting bill that passed the House.
01:05
And so there was hope that you could at least make it that step again in 2025.
01:10
But you know, we had one representative a couple weeks ago come out and say, no, this
01:15
is dead.
01:16
It's six feet under.
01:17
We're going to make sure it doesn't pass the House.
01:18
Well, last week, a group of new freshman Republican representatives came out, sent
01:25
a letter to the committee that it would likely start in.
01:27
There is a bill, of course, working.
01:29
It hasn't been assigned to a committee, but the committee it would likely start in sent
01:34
the chairman a note that just said, hey, we oppose this.
01:38
We're, you know, a dozen new lawmakers who replaced lawmakers who voted for it in 2023
01:44
and were against it.
01:45
So it's dead.
01:46
And that was essentially what it came out to.
01:49
Again, that's 12 lawmakers that voted for it in 2023 were replaced with these lawmakers.
01:57
And it barely just by one vote surpassed the two thirds majority that it needed to pass
02:02
the House in 2023.
02:03
So if you're doing the math there, unless there's a bunch of new votes that just came
02:07
out of thin air, it doesn't seem like the votes are there in the House again.
02:11
So Texas, yeah, for those who are hopeful, it doesn't seem great news in the Lone Star
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State coming out of the House of Representatives.
02:21
If you're looking to even get back to where you were in 2023, is that terrible in the
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long run?
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No.
02:27
Again, because Dan Patrick's still there and we didn't expect it to go through the Senate
02:31
anyway.
02:32
So it's going to be waiting till 2027, at least in Texas, it seems like.
02:37
Because of course, the legislator only meets every other year.
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So that's there.
02:42
But I should note last week in Hawaii, a kind of a surprising state, you know, it passed
02:48
the sports betting, passed the House, and it's now passed two Senate committees.
02:53
And so who knows, Hawaii could be just under the radar and surprise everybody out there.
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