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June 30th has passed and Ohio has not legalized sports as its enthusiasts had hoped.
The Ohio legislature is now on summer vacation until Labor Day and advocates hope to be able to use the downtime to paint the scenes so that September will be a closed deal.
“Over the summer, we’re going to be working on this to verify and finalize it, so when we come back in September, that’s going to be one of the first things we’ll do,” House Speaker Bob Cupp told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “That’s our purpose and that’s our hope. “
State Sen. Kirk Schuring, who chaired the Senate Special Gaming Committee and is one of the leading attorneys, said he was confident things were going to be done and believes that even if he hasn’t passed the June 30 deadline, the state hasn’t lost sports betting in the future.
“We weren’t going to take the programs for the other licenses until January 2022, and those programs would only be approved until April. I think we can be very close to assembling that schedule,” he told News-Talk 1480 AM in Canton on Wednesday.
“We want to do our homework in the next two months so that when the House comes back to consultation in early September, we can adopt this temporarily,” he continued. “We will be very close, if not just on target, to the schedule on the bill if it had passed before June 30. “
Schuring and his committee held many meetings throughout the winter and spring, listening to stakeholders with the purpose of proposing a law that would be ideal for all parties. They discussed the June 30 deadline as a goal and promised it would happen.
And then no.
The Senate, after extensive paintings through Schuring and his committee, passed the bill on June 16. It included 3 types of licenses: type A for cellular applications, which would be limited to 25; Type B for brick and mortar installations to be limited to 33; and Type C, which would allow certain licensed small businesses to offer Keno-type sports with kiosks on site.
The bill favored Ohio professional sports over casinos in terms of licensing, much to the dismay of casino operators.
But the House had hearings.
“[T] turns out to be a war of words between the House and Senate on the main points about licensing and who gets it, etc. ,” Nancy Martorano Miller, a political science professor at the University of Dayton who specializes in Ohio politics, Gaming Today wrote in an email: “The President (Bob Cupp) has made it clear that the House won’t take the factor until the fall. “
Rep. Brigid Kelly intended to pass a bill in the house of decline, as she did in previous years, but her workplace said she hoped to see what the Senate did before moving forward.
In the days leading up to June 30, supporters tried to incorporate sports betting into laws that were deemed “mandatory,” adding a veterans identity bill, but Cupp refused to settle for it without its members having a full chance to find out. that.
Miller is confident lawmakers will reach some sort of agreement over the summer.
“I think sports will be legalized. All states bordering Ohio have legalized this practice, and elected officials know that Ohioans will likely cross the border into those states to bet on the sport. question of tidying up the details,” he wrote.
However, it’s hard to guess what those main points look like.
Schuring told the canton’s radio station that, however, he believes they are close to the final line and expects more licenses.
“I think we have a smart framework, I don’t think I want a primary review. I think you just want a few changes. I think the licenses that we have, the A and B licenses that we talked about earlier are in good condition. “. Some other people would possibly want to make changes to Type C licenses,” he said. There is not much left to do. I think we have a consensus.
Some small businesses hoped to sign up for the action by allowing Keno-type machines at their institutions to offer sports betting. The original law passed by the Senate allowed for an edition of this, but it wasn’t what the advocates had. hoping.
Casinos had also been annoyed with the Senate’s follower because the law favored sports groups over their facilities, which will be serviced in the fall.
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