There are sleeping problems at the State Capitol, then, somewhere between a sleeping and buried basement, there are legalizing sports betting.
(Note: A decision was made at the start of the report process to include any game games in this story.)
On Tuesday, the Senate tax committee rejected a proposal “to study, to assess, to provide recommendations and to publish a report on the legalization of sports betting”.
Measurement, not to legalize the sports game but rather to study the possibility of a day maybe The legalization of the sports game was part of an omnibus tax expenditure bill.
The tax bill and other critical links to maintain the functioning of the Operating State Government are, more or less, blocked while Governor Tim Walz and legislative leaders hold negotiations on closed doors two -year budget invoice.
A budget will almost certainly not be finalized before the current end of the legislative session, which is this Monday, May 19. Miss the deadline means that Walz must call a special session of the Legislative Assembly.
(The head of the majority of the Senate Erin Murphy, DFL-str. Paul, Tell to journalists Wednesday that, “a special session is very, very likely if not inevitable.”)
However, the Senate tax committee took the time to modify its bill before returning it to the Senate.
The president of the Ann Rest Committee, DFL-New Hope, said that the legislation aimed at legalizing the sports game was too preliminary to demand that the committees of taxes, finances and social services produce a study on the subject, because the required provision.
(Too, the Home version of the tax invoice does not request any study of this type.)
“It’s a year of real uncertainty about how things are going to move forward,” said Rost at the meeting. “We had a lot of” I don’t know but it’s a good idea “in the invoices that preceded us.”
And among these proposals “I don’t know”, sports betting “continue to get the most controversy,” said Rest.
The REST maneuver was bad news for the vice-president of the tax committee, Matt Klein, DFL-Mendota Heights, who sponsored several bills to legalize sports betting and last year was part of a group of legislators of the two parties who concluded an agreement to satisfy both tribal and horse racing interests.
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Klein’s proposals included a measure to make legal sports betting on the 11 sites of the tribal nation of Minnesota, but have always prohibited elsewhere, a proposal from the State Government Committee muffled FEBRUARY.
Speaking just after rest at the hearing of the tax committee, Klein deplored that “again, this year, we will abandon the minnesotans who feel that they have a legitimate right to parent sports on their mobile devices and already do so in abundant numbers on unregulated, in danger and predatory platforms.”
By “refusing to go ahead with even a study,” said Klein, “we are once again abandoning this year the 11 sovereign nations of this state which told us that it was their absolute priority.”
After his remarks, Klein Take a look in the committee room And asked if someone else wanted to express themselves against the amendment of the rest. No one said a word, and the amendment was adopted by a vocal vote.
Why efforts to legalize sports betting continue to fail
That each attempt to legalize sports betting dies on arrival is somewhat unusual.
Since the 2018 Supreme Court decision This allows states to decide to allow these bets, 38 states have legalized the sports game, 30 of the people allowing to place directly from a mobile device.
The football and basketball television competitions are saturated with reminders that fans (as long as they live in the right condition) can place bets on applications like Draftings or Fanduel before and during matches.
The National Conference of States Legislatures, however, noted March study that “the frenzy around the expansion of sports betting has slowed down and the legislators turn their attention to state revenues”.
Sports betting policy in Minnesota Understands the debates On the advisability of playing exclusive games to tribes and the integration of a circuit track approved by the State, which have currently cornered the legal market for state legal sports games.
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In addition, some legislators say that the gaming authorization would only have effects that predatory platforms above all.
“Each on our phones, notifications to the endless scrolling functions, was modeled after the most addictive parties of the game,” said Senator Erin Maye Quade, DFL-Apple Valley, during the hearing of the Government of the State of February.