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Massachusetts Lawmakers: Slow and Steady on Sports Betting

Jill R. Dorson by Jill R. Dorson
May 23, 2018
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Maybe Next Year for MA Sports Betting As House Speaker Cast Doubt on Bill Happening With Two Months Left in Session.

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Don’t expect to be able to place a sports wager in Massachusetts any time soon.

Though the state’s gaming commission released results of a white paper earlier this year to study sports betting in the Bay State, Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo on Wednesday quashed the notion that the state is in a hurry to legalize Massachusetts sports betting, according to a report from the State House News Service.

“I think that there are so many questions that have to be answered and I think that right now for us to be able to expect to do this within the last two months of session …” DeLeo said. “I’m not saying we’re not going to talk about it, we’re going continue to try to come to some type of an answer yes or no, but what I’m saying is I think it would be very, very difficult.”

The Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) on May 14, opening the door for states to legalize sports wagering if they so desire. Many do. Several states across the country and particularly in the Northeast have been scrambling to push forward legislation or implement what they had already put into place.

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Massachusetts, however, isn’t the only one to push down on the brakes. Illinois lawmakers said last week they want to avoid “screwing it up” by rushing any legislation.

But Connecticut, the Bay State’s neighbor to the south, is discussing a special session for sports betting. Outgoing Governor Daniel Malloy had plans to meet with lawmakers on that subject on Wednesday.

Massachusetts is home to a commercial casino in Plainville, near the Rhode Island border, and myriad live dog- and horse-racing tracks, any of which may be interested in housing sports betting operations. In addition, there are at least three commercials casinos, including an MGM property in Springfield set to open on Aug. 24, and a Wynn Resorts property scheduled across the Mystic River with a view of Boston.

State lawmakers have not yet proposed any sports betting legislation, though former Representative Eileen Donoghue introduced a fantasy sports bill before she left the legislature earlier this year to become the city manager of Lowell.

In his comments on Wednesday, DeLeo said he was focused on the integrity of sports. On that, all stakeholders can agree, and it’s yet unclear if DeLeo may by receptive to the pro sports leagues’ request for an “integrity fee” that the NBA and Major League Baseball have been lobbying for across the country.

Those leagues submit that they need and are entitled to payments to cover additional monitoring costs they say they will incur once sports legal betting expands. In Connecticut earlier this year, lawmakers seemed unwilling to consider paying the leagues a fee and chastised league representatives at a hearing. And on Wednesday, New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney referred to such a fee as “extortion”:

Strong opposition to sports leagues' request for sports betting fees from @NJSenatePres: pic.twitter.com/ELwsCN8V1O

— David Payne Purdum (@DavidPurdum) May 23, 2018

And in the bigger picture, Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby on Tuesday joined a statement with counterparts in Louisiana, Michigan and Nevada, endorsing state-based regulations for sports wagering.

“As we expect the dialogue to continue with substantial actions to be undertaken rapidly, it is important to assert and confirm our support for a rational, state-based and tribal government approach to an expansion of legal, regulated sports wagering in the United States,” Crosby and the other officials wrote in the joint statement.

Back home inMassachusetts, DeLeo and his co-chairman of the Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Joseph Wagner, have had discussions about sports betting, but clearly neither is in a rush.

“While we might elevate it in terms of where it may be in the queue, the speaker’s correct. It’s going to take a period of time to do a deep dive,” Wagner said. “It’s more important to get it right than to do it quickly and I think only time will tell if states who have already taken an action will in fact have gotten it right.”

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Jill R. Dorson

Jill R. Dorson

Jill has covered everything from steeplechase to the NFL and then some during a more than 30-year career in sports journalism. The highlight of her career was covering Oakland Raiders during the Charles Woodson/Jon Gruden era, including the infamous “Snow Bowl” and the Raiders’ 2003 trip to Super Bowl XXXVII. Her specialty these days is covering sports betting legislation across the country. You can reach Jill at [email protected]

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