The Home handed SB 2510, however added the legalization of cell sports activities betting, so it was rejected by the Senate. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Sweepstakes casinos reside on in Mississippi, because the state’s Home of Representatives didn’t comply with the invoice the Senate despatched over in February that may have banned the type of on-line on line casino playing. Extra particularly, the Home did move SB 2510, however solely after amending it to legalize cell sports activities betting. And therein lay the issue.
it went again to the Senate, the place the modification was rejected
SB 2510 handed simply within the Senate only a couple months in the past, however within the Home, Home Gaming Committee Chairman Rep. Casey Eure inserted the sports activities betting portion, primarily attempting to resurrect a cell sports activities betting invoice he had beforehand launched. As a result of the invoice was amended, it went again to the Senate, the place the modification was rejected.
It wasn’t fairly over, although, as a convention committee was convened to provide it one final shot. In a convention committee, choose members of every chamber get collectively to attempt to hammer out a compromise invoice. The Home desires cell sports activities betting for income functions – the state already has retail casinos and sportsbooks – however the Senate is in opposition to it for concern of wounding retail casinos.
Sweepstakes casinos are free-to-play on-line casinos, however with the added function of with the ability to money out for actual cash. They’ve been criticized as a result of although they’re technically free, additionally they enable gamers to purchase extra in-game foreign money or chips, thus successfully performing like actual casinos.
In the long run, the members of the convention committee couldn’t reconcile their differing viewpoints and determine one thing out in time for the convention report submitting deadline of March 31.
So for now, sweepstakes casinos reside on within the Magnolia State. They may nonetheless be banned by the state gaming regulator, one thing that has occurred in different states, however till that occurs, they’re out there to gamblers in Mississippi.
