Mississippi Battles Over Online Sports Betting and Sweepstakes

SportsGrid

Watch Mississippi Battles Over Online Sports Betting and Sweepstakes - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Let's start with our stories that we normally cover for you.

00:02By the way, you can read about these over at

00:03legalsportsreport.com.

00:04Let's start off with the latest in Mississippi.

00:07Still trying to get this online sports betting going.

00:10What is the very latest?

00:12I know sweepstakes now involved.

00:13This seems to be a popular topic these days.

00:16Yeah, Mississippi is a very interesting legislative season

00:19this year with sports betting and sweepstakes.

00:22I mean, sweepstakes is crazy.

00:23It's there's at least, I think it's up to nine or 10 now

00:26of states that have introduced sweepstakes

00:29prohibiting bills.

00:31So, and Mississippi, the Senate was the first chamber

00:35in the U.S. to pass a bill that prohibits sweepstakes.

00:39Now this comes after the house had already

00:43approved a sports betting bill to expand online

00:46because of course, Mississippi has had

00:48in-person sports betting since 2018.

00:51So every year since then, they've been trying to legalize

00:54online sports betting and you always get a little bit

00:56of kickback from the locally owned casinos

00:59who are saying, no, we're gonna lose a bunch of money.

01:01We can't do this.

01:03Well, Casey, you're in his house bill had created a fund

01:08that would allow, you know, the sports betting tax

01:11to help kind of make those local casinos a little happier

01:15and make up that revenue that they might lose.

01:18Well, the Senate didn't act on that bill,

01:20but they sent forward that sweepstakes prohibition bill.

01:23And the house said, well, wait a second,

01:25if you're gonna do that, we'll go ahead

01:26and put our sports betting language in there.

01:29And then they passed it.

01:30So now this sweepstakes prohibition bill

01:32has the online sports betting language in it,

01:35sent it over to the Senate.

01:36The Senate said, well, we don't like that.

01:38So we're gonna say, no, we're gonna invite you

01:40to a conference committee and we're gonna see

01:42what happens there.

01:44So right now there's three members from each chamber,

01:46three senators, three representatives.

01:48They'll go ahead and get together and bang heads together

01:51about, you know, what actually can pass in Mississippi.

01:54Now this happened in the past and they just killed the bill.

01:58So we'll see what happens, whether or not sweepstakes

02:00just as prohibited, or we go ahead and expand online

02:04finally in Mississippi.

02:05Again, they've been trying every year since 2018.

02:09Yeah, so just a really interesting kind of back and forth,

02:12you know, tennis match over there in Mississippi

02:15between the house and Senate, trying to figure out

02:17what's the best way to move forward in online gaming.

Category

Transcript

Recommended