\nAll this is going to do is prime children to get ready to gamble one day,\u201d Griffin told the Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Stephens said Georgians spend billions of dollars each year betting illegally. These bets, some placed on offshore websites, are not taxed in Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/span>We can legitimize it, if you will, through the lottery,\u201d Stephens said. \u201c<\/span>If you\u2019<\/span>re going to do it offshore, why don\u2019<\/span>t we collect the revenue here in Georgia?\u201d<\/p>\nRegional Expansion<\/h2>\n
Tennessee is Georgia\u2019s only neighboring state that allows online sports betting. Tennessee does not have commercial casinos.<\/p>\n
States across the Southern region, including Texas and Mississippi, are considering legalizing mobile sports betting. Mississippi allows sports betting in person at sportsbooks in casinos. The state is home to 26 casinos. Texas has yet to legalize commercial casinos.<\/p>\n
In Louisiana, voters in November approved sports betting in a majority of the state\u2019s parishes. When lawmakers next meet in April<\/a>, they will have to decide whether to allow mobile sports wagering or restrict sports betting to in-person wagers inside casinos. Louisiana has 13 riverboat casinos, a land-based casino in New Orleans, and four racinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill to allow online sports betting in Georgia won overwhelming support this week in a state House committee. The measure now goes to the full House for consideration. House Bill 86 by Rep. Ron Stephens (R) was approved on a 20-6 vote Tuesday in the House Economic Development and Tourism Committee. Stephens is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":163391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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