OKLAHOMA – All the legislation on sports betting died Thursday on the prosecution of the Senate of the Oklahoma State.
Two bills dealing with means of legalizing sports betting in the state failed to vote from the Senate Chamber before a critical deadline on Thursday.
The two bills were a vote to reach their final destinations.
A destination was the Governor's office, where Governor Kevin Stitt had already threatened with veto, saying that it was a gift in cash for state tribes. The other was a vote to give it to the Oklahomans to vote to a future measure to vote on the level of the State, if the governor opposed the measure.
Although sports betting received unanimous bipartite support in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for several sessions, the State Senate which approved it a few weeks ago was the most distant legislation of sports betting had never advanced in the upper chamber.
FOX23 is informed that the teams necessary to implement this among the tribes, the governor and the other parties, no one spoke to conclude an agreement to implement sports betting, if the state legislature or the people of Oklahoma legalized it.
The senator leading legalization efforts in his senator from the state of the Bill Coleman Chamber (R-Ponca City) published the following declaration:
“I have been working on sports betting for years and I really believe that Oklahoma is missing an important opportunity – both economically and in terms of consumer protection. Although I was initially skeptical, more in -depth research and conversations with the chiefs of the industry showed me the important guarantees in place to solve problems such as addictive behavior. Thanks to that.
