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Massachusetts Moves Forward with Online Casino Bill
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6/19/2025
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First let's start off with Pat and hit on online casino gaming in Massachusetts. I know this is a
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hot topic for us here on the show. Some states say yes, some states say no. Where does Massachusetts
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stand? Yeah, so to your point, yeah, a ton of states have been talking about online casino
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this year. Not much has happened in terms of legalization. Of course there's seven or eight
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states across the country that have it and it's been slow compared to sports betting getting
00:25
rolling legally. But yeah, in Massachusetts we have Senator Paul Feeney and Rep Daniel
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Cahill. They've introduced a bill back in February in both of their respective chambers. It is
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now going to a joint hearing. So members of both the Senate and House will sit on a committee
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next Monday and talk about online casino in Massachusetts. Of course this is one of the
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most active states in terms of regulatory action. So that will be really interesting to watch.
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it would open up if it does end up passing all the chambers and necessary steps. It would open up
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each of the three casinos in Massachusetts to have up to two online gambling operators along with their
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sports betting options. Also for untethered licenses. So it could be a pretty vibrant market up there in
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Boston. We'll see what happens. This of course, as I just mentioned, is a very active regulatory body.
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The Massachusetts gaming commission chair Jordan Maynard actually just came out recently and called
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on a federal framework for advertising, which of course we know as we've talked about on the show
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up in Canada, similar legislation to that has been filed. So we'll see if Maynard's call could bring
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any sort of excitement to that. He also says there should be a national exclusion network, not
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just state by state. So, you know, it's interesting to have that dichotomy of the regulator calling for more
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regulation, more, you know, he said the online gambling industry has gone off the highway.
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There's no guardrails on it and things like that. So very interesting to see that state now considering even more
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online gambling, uh, as their top regulators saying, hold on, there's a lot going on here that we need
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to keep in check. Um, also of note up in new England is the main, uh, house and Senate have approved
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a online casino bill, just kind of quickly out of, out of the blue. Um, and it is going to an
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appropriations table, which every legislation that has a fiscal note needs to weirdly 10% of only 10% of
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bills that go to the approach appropriations table end up passing. So Maine, uh, it has some tough
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sliding ahead, but yeah, new England online casino this year seems, uh, to be pretty active, apparently.
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