Minnesota's Delay in Legalizing Sports Betting Beyond 2026

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00:00another step back gonna have to wait not just till 2026 maybe even beyond with the gopher state

00:06yeah minnesota is just again one of those states i mean at this point every kind of state that's

00:12made any sort of strong push toward the passage is now kind of the one you look toward to do it

00:18the next session and uh minnesota you know like you said every time i've ever since i've been

00:24coming on the show has been trying to legalize it and you know there's always been a little bit of a

00:29hope um you know a couple years ago it passed the house and and fell apart in the senate because

00:34there was disagreements and you know last year we saw a very strong push at the end that said okay

00:40there's a agreement uh on all parties and we're gonna get it done next year it passed you know

00:46that agreement came together at the last hour and the session adjourned and we were like okay it's

00:54gonna get get done next year and sure enough you know this year it started senator matt klein

00:59introduced the bill that brought all the you know stakeholders together and and happy about it the

01:05tribes the 11 tribes in minnesota that will would control it as a you know a monopoly uh were excited

01:12you had the tracks the horse racing tracks who had been kind of the sore point because they wanted

01:18either uh you know a license for themselves or a big revenue share they had that figured out

01:24um the charity gaming aspect they had that figured out so it looked like you know the democrat farmer

01:29labor party and the republicans who were more with the tracks all came together said okay this is great

01:36well then it was introduced in its first session or first committee and the opposition reared its head

01:42which you know i had been told last fall that there is bipartisan opposition strong enough to to doom it

01:47and sure enough uh it did and what's interesting though is that was in february the whole session

01:53goes on little to no talking about sports betting then there's a budget uh that they're putting together

02:00and there was a proposal to include a study on sports betting and how to implement it and that was

02:05stripped out in a committee where a chair said you know this uh we're too early in the discussion of

02:11legalizing sports betting uh to study it and so it didn't make the budget uh the budget actually

02:17didn't finish before the session adjourned on monday so there will be a special session whether or not

02:22sports betting you know makes its way back into that discussion even just for a study is to be seen

02:28uh but so far with the regular session adjourned on monday uh sports betting in minnesota will have to

02:34wait at least another year uh but it doesn't seem like a whole lot of progress was made despite there

02:39being that promising connection of all the parties involved wanting to get it done so

02:45minnesota yeah we're just going to have to keep watching and and waiting and to see if anything else

02:51uh can happen and finally pat we close it out with some debate on a potential tax hike in the state of

02:57north carolina what are the odds that they raise tax rates on sports betting in north carolina yeah this is

03:05an interesting one uh the senate of course last month introduced their proposal for a budget uh that

03:11included a doubling of the tax rate from 18 to 36 percent and that you know includes appropriations

03:17to the the university system which it already includes but now they're putting north carolina

03:23north carolina state into it the house you know we were like okay well maybe the house will also

03:28submit their budget with that same tax hike the house's proposal was released this week and does

03:34not include a tax hike it just keeps it at 18 percent it does change uh the appropriations and so

03:41that this part of it will definitely at some point be talked about in the conference committee because

03:46of the differences in the budget proposals it will have to go to a conference committee and see how it

03:51uh shapes up and and we'll see if any sort of raise comes it comes it probably won't be 36 percent but

03:57it might stay at 18 or it might go up a little bit we'll see

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