While waiting for a draft law of the Alabama Senate, five representatives of the State have filed legislation to authorize the regulations, taxation and granting of licenses to certain sports betting activities in Alabama.
The bill of Chamber 490 would create the Alabama sports control law.
According to the law:
- The Alabama Game Commission would be established
- Licenses would be issued for online betting and bets in person
- A 10% tax would be collected on net income from sports betting of a licensee
- Income, including fines and costs, would be divided, 40% going to the General State Fund, 40% to the Education Fund and 20% going to the Nile Trust Fund
- The Nile Supervisory Committee would be created to regulate the name, image and remuneration of the resemblance to students in the remunerated secondary
- Students in high school would be authorized to receive zero compensation, subject to certain conditions
- Nile remuneration for high and college athletes would be exempt from state income tax
Sports betting include bets in a single match, beter bets, parapos, sub-sous, the line of money, swimming pools, exchange bets, betting in the game, betting betting, proposal betting and rights. He does not include bets on fantastic sports.
HB 490 prohibits all Paris on public or private schools from kindergarten to 12th year or other sporting or sports events for young amateurs. People under the age of 21 cannot participate in sports betting.
Read the bill here:
HB490 was presented on Tuesday April 1.
He is sponsored by:
- Rep. Jeremy Gray, D-Opelika
- Rep. Ontario Tillman, D-Bessemer
- Rep. Prince Chestnut, D-Selma
- Rep. Chris England, D-Testcaloosa.
- Representative Travis Hendrix, D-Fairfield
Although discussions are underway, a full game package has not been placed in the Alabama Senate. Senator Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, said that votes were still counted to determine if there is enough support for a bill, which would include a constitutional amendment.
Twenty -one votes are necessary in the Senate to adopt a constitutional amendment.
The management of the Chamber has always declared that the legislation on the games was to come from the Senate during the 2025 session after a complete set failed in the Senate in the last days of the legislative session of 2024. In mid-February, the president of the Nathaniel Ledbetter Chamber, R-Rainsville, told journalists that the Senate proposed should be comparable to what the Chamber 2024.
Before being modified in the Senate, the bills included a lottery, sports betting, casinos and a compact of games with the poarch band of the Indians of the Ruisseau (PCI). Revenues provided by the state of these forms of play have totaled $ 935.6 million and $ 1.214 billion per year.
In February, the head of the Senate minority, Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said that certain concepts he had heard for legislation in 2025 included sports betting, a lottery and class II or class III games.