\nThis amendment ensures that Florida voters shall have the exclusive right to decide whether to authorize casino gambling in the State of Florida. ‘Casino gambling’ means any of the types of games typically found in casinos and that are within the definition of Class III gaming in the Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act,”<\/strong> the amendment states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFlorida Education Champions, a political action committee, is leading a campaign to ask voters in 2022 if they wish to legalize sports betting for the Seminoles. The ballot question would also apply to pari-mutuel facilities and professional sports venues.<\/p>\n
Campaign Update<\/b><\/h2>\n
Florida Education Champions is responsible for Initiative 21-13, which seeks to authorize sports and event betting. Campaign spokesperson Christina Johnson explains that they expect to collect the necessary 891,589 signatures to force the ballot question.<\/p>\n
“We are confident we will have enough signatures to meet the February 1, 2022, deadline,” Johnson revealed.<\/p>\n
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However, Johnson concedes that the group has less than one-third of the required signatures validated so far. The Florida Department of State says 247,680 signatures have been validated. Johnson clarifies that the organization has a boatload of signatures that are waiting to be verified by state officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If the initiative moves to the polls and obtains a 60 percent supermajority, sports betting will become legal in Florida. The initiative requires that tax revenue generated from sports gambling be allocated for public education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Backers of the Florida sports betting initiative expect to have the necessary signatures from state residents to force a ballot referendum on the expanded gaming topic in 2022. Legal sports betting was short-lived in Florida after a federal judge tossed out a revised gaming compact reached in November between the Seminole Tribe and Gov. Ron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":196730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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