Oklahoma lawmakers filed HB 1434, a bill to place in-person and mobile sports betting under the state lottery, in February 2024. The proposal would tax in-person betting revenue at 15% and digital revenue at 20%; the article reported that it was not on the Appropriations Committee calendar for that week.
The bill proposes a lottery-run betting framework that could alter how operators enter Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill banning sweepstakes casinos after the state House and Senate passed it, while the Senate separately rejected a sports betting bill, according to the report. The vetoed measure would have prohibited online casino games using dual currencies; the sports betting proposal failed in the Senate by 27 votes to 21. Stitt gave no official explanation for the veto.
Oklahoma’s Senate rejected House Bill 1047 by 27 votes to 21 on 22 April, stopping the proposal to legalise online and retail sports betting in its current form. The bill had passed the state House; an amendment proposing tribal control of mobile and in-person betting preceded the Senate vote. The amendment’s failure would have sent the bill back to the House for further discussion.
An attempt to legalise sports betting in Oklahoma failed, according to the report. The available details identify Senator Bill Coleman as the sponsor of the latest effort but do not specify the bill or the point at which it stalled.
DraftKings and FanDuel submitted applications to enter Arkansas’s mobile sports betting market, according to a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. The Arkansas Racing Commission has not set a review date, and approval would still leave each operator needing a casino partner. State rules require the casino to retain at least 51% of the mobile platform’s net revenue.
Nebraska casino operators filed two ballot initiatives seeking to legalise online sports betting, according to a report citing Lynne McNally, a campaign director. One proposal would allow betting through casinos linked to licensed horse racing tracks; the other would direct tax revenue to the cities and counties where bets are placed. Organisers must meet signature thresholds for the measures to qualify for the November ballot.