Two sports activities betting payments didn’t progress on Thursday in Oklahoma, which implies the matter is lifeless for one more yr. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Regardless of one of the best efforts of sure lawmakers, authorized sports activities betting gained’t be coming to Oklahoma in 2025. Two payments didn’t progress earlier than Thursday’s deadline, and the Senate didn’t approve another payments earlier than adjourning within the afternoon.
would have allowed for on-line and retail sportsbooks on tribal land
Consultant Ken Luttrell obtained approval for his pair of payments within the Home final month earlier than they stalled within the Senate. They might have allowed for on-line and retail sportsbooks on tribal land by amending gaming compacts, with a provision that might have despatched the matter to a public vote if the governor vetoed the laws.
A giant thorn within the facet of those efforts was Governor Kevin Stitt, who didn’t wish to give a monopoly to tribes, preferring an open market mannequin.
He remarked that he by no means had any enter on Luttrell’s payments, hinting that he wouldn’t signal them into regulation even when they reached his desk, and never everybody was being totally represented within the discussions.
Now the matter is lifeless for one more yr, and the Oklahoma legislature doesn’t reconvene till February 2026.
