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March 7, 2025

Georgia sports betting hopes die without general assembly floor vote

After a harried week of late nights, hopes for legal sports betting in Georgia died late on Thursday (6 March) night without action by the house.

To a round of applause, Georgia general assembly speaker Jon Burns called the session to an end about an hour before the 11.59pm local legislative deadline on crossover day. A package of sports betting bills – a constitutional amendment and a framework bill – weren’t among those called for a vote Thursday.

A senate committee previously deferred its package of wagering bills. Because the issue didn’t get sent from one chamber to the other, it is dead for the 2025 session.

Nearly seven years after the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was overturned, making legal sports betting a states’ rights issue, 39 US states have legalised. Still more are considering it this year.

The Hawaii house passed a digital-only sports betting bill on 4 March. The same day, house lawmakers in Mississippi, where retail sports betting has been live ..

March 5, 2025

Amended digital-only sports betting legislation moves forward in Georgia

A Georgia house committee moved digital-only sports betting legislation forward on Wednesday (5 March) with an increased tax rate. The rules committee is next with the goal of getting to the house floor before Thursday's crossover deadline.

Legislation must be sent to the opposite chamber by the end of Thursday in order for it to be considered this session. According to the Georgia general assembly website, the rules committee will convene at 9am local time.

The package of bills – a constitutional amendment and a framework bill – both passed the higher education committee via voice vote. An amendment to bump the proposed tax rate in HB 686 to 24% from 20% also passed. The committee defeated an amendment to HR 450 that would have added igaming to the referendum that will go before voters.

The package of bills would legalise only digital sports betting. It would be on the November 2026 ballot and the go-live date would be 31 July 2027. Should the legislation pass, it would cre..

March 5, 2025

Georgia house committee hears some inaccuracies from wagering opponent

Forty-eight hours before the crossover deadline, a Georgia house committee heard testimony about sports betting. However, some of it was inaccurate.

On Tuesday (4 March) the Georgia higher education committee listened to testimony from six witnesses about sports betting as the issue begins its last-minute march through the chamber.

There was no vote on Tuesday, while Thursday is the crossover deadline. Committee chair Chuck Martin said that while Wednesday is a legislative workday, the committee will meet again in the afternoon. Sports betting could land on that agenda and, if not, it would move to the Thursday agenda. The committee – like others in Atlanta – is working extra hours ahead of the crossover deadline.

Should the committee advance the proposal, which would allow for statewide mobile sports betting, the full house would have to approve it to keep it alive. However, a senate committee has already rejected a legalisation measure.

HB 686 is part of a package of bills and..

March 3, 2025

Time short, but Georgia house now has sports betting bills to consider

A pair of Georgia house bills that would allow pro sports teams wagering licences dropped late last week. Time, however, is running short.

The Georgia general assembly’s crossover deadline for a bill to be sent to the opposite chamber is 6 March. HB 686, a framework for online sports betting, and HR 450, a constitutional amendment, were filed on 28 February. As of Monday, they had not been assigned to a committee.

Similar legislation was filed earlier in the session in the senate. Fox 5 Atlanta reported that the senate regulated industries and utilities committee did not advance the constitutional amendment on 27 February.

In the house, the package of bills would legalise only digital sports betting and send voters the decision on whether to do so by referendum. Should the legislation pass, it would create an open, competitive marketplace with the Georgia Lottery Corporation as the regulator. The lottery would also be able to have a digital betting platform.

One unusual line in ..

February 14, 2025

State of the Union: Mississippi senate bans sweeps, MGCB comes down on illegal operators

Welcome to iGB's State of the Union, a look at the biggest North American sports betting stories we've covered over the week and briefs on others we found interesting.

Mississippi senate approves sweeps ban

Mississippi lawmakers on Tuesday (11 February) became the first state in the nation to take decisive action in terms of banning digital sweepstakes. The state senate passed SB 2510, 44-1. The bill will now go to the house. The bill bans “online sweepstakes casino-style games” and operators would be fined $100,000 (£79,000/€95,000) per violation and could serve up to 10 years in prison. The level of crime was elevated from a misdemeanour to a felony.

The bill would also ban online racebooks and online sports pools. Brick-and-mortar casinos and sportsbooks and horse race tracks are legal throughout the state, but no form of digital gambling, including online casino, is.

Earlier in the session, HB 1302, which would allow for statewide digital sports betting, passed out t..

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