{"id":49480,"date":"2022-05-03T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/?p=49480"},"modified":"2022-05-03T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:01:58","slug":"confusion-reigns-over-missouri-sports-betting-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/confusion-reigns-over-missouri-sports-betting-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion Reigns Over Missouri Sports Betting Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47799\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47799\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47799\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Missouri-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Missouri-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Missouri-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Missouri-384x217.jpg 384w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Missouri.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missouri State Senate<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Missouri\u2019s protracted journey towards establishing a local sports betting marketplace could be subject to even further delay. Senator Denny Hoskins, one of the chief political advocates of pushing through some form of sportsbook legislation, is currently locked in discussions around a \u2018compromise amendment\u2019 added to House Bill 2502, a proposal whose original detail was approved by the House in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hoskins\u2019 challenge hinges on the introduction of VLT\u2019s (Video Lottery Terminals), endorsing the amendment\u2019s proposal of legalizing 5,000 of these machines to descend on various venues throughout the state. Casino operators, who have received the backing of Hoskins\u2019 Republican colleague Senator Mike Bernskoetter, are keen to block this move in order to protect all possible internal revenue channels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">House Bill 2502, which received 115 endorsements versus 33 votes against, would see The Show-Me State\u2019s riverboat casino concessionaires and professional sports franchises able to create online sportsbook platforms in partnership with betting brands. However, Hoskins\u2019 battle with casino lobbyists on the VLT element of the amendment threatens to derail the whole process, with the proposed bill still stuck in the debating phase. The Republican official blamed this development on \u2018casino greed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hoskins is convinced that the implementation of VLT\u2019s would serve to reduce the increasing presence of \u2018gray machines\u2019, which are unregulated and therefore undermine player protection standards. Furthermore, he believes that VLT\u2019s would generate a colossal $45m per annum in gross gaming revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The compromise amendment would also see the tax leveraged on prospective sports betting operators raised from 8% to 10%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Whether Hoskins concedes grounds to the casinos, and accepts Bernskoetter\u2019s request to remove VLT terminology from the amendment is unknown. However, if this is to be the case, Hoskins will need to act fast, otherwise risk missing the opportunity of securing any sports betting legislation prior to the end of this political session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri\u2019s protracted journey towards establishing a local sports betting marketplace could be subject to even further delay. Senator Denny Hoskins, one of the chief political advocates of pushing through some form of sportsbook legislation, is currently locked in discussions around a \u2018compromise amendment\u2019 added to House Bill 2502, a proposal whose original detail was approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines","category-latest","category-n-america"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Confusion Reigns Over Missouri Sports Betting Bill - iGaming Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/confusion-reigns-over-missouri-sports-betting-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Confusion Reigns Over Missouri Sports Betting Bill - iGaming Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Missouri\u2019s protracted journey towards establishing a local sports betting marketplace could be subject to even further delay. 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