Kentucky lawmakers ended the 2022 session of the General Assembly on Th eve unable to pass legislation that would decriminalize sports betting inwards the Bluegrass Country State.

House Bill 606, which would feature legalized sports betting and online fire hook and modulate fantasize sports, never got a thirdly indication on the Senate level during the net II days of the session. It could not regular got out of a Senate committee, fifty-fifty as leaders moved it from the Licensing and Occupations Committee to the Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee on Wednesday.

“We just don’t feature the votes,” Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, said during a final-hour voice communication in the chamber.

Thayer antecedently described the bill’s chances of qualifying as a longshot before lawmakers returned Wednesday for the net II days of the session. Nonetheless, as a friend of the bill, he gave it II readings later(a) last month before the general assembly recessed for the blackball period. That gave the bill’s sponsor, nation Rep. hug drug Koenig, unity net chance to lash upwardly keep for the bill.

Supporters told Casino.org the bank note was around quartet votes shortsighted as of Thursday morning.

The death of the session brought nearly a signified of dashing hopes from proponents of the sports betting bill, which eventually passed the House lastly month for the first-class honours degree time since Koenig, R-Erlanger, filed his initial greenback in 2019. They sworn to continue the effort to legalize what 33 other states and the District of Columbia River already have.

All we did was shelve the inevitable,” Koenig told Casino.org after the session concluded.

Koenig thanked Thayer, Senate Majority Caucus Chair Julie Raque Adams, R-Louisville, and Economic Development Committee Chair Wil Schroder, R-Wilder, for their efforts to tympan upwardly keep in the Senate.

Other Kentucky Gaming Bills Also Fail to Pass

After his 2020 banker's bill languished on the House level for most of that session, Koenig waited to Indian file HB 606 until late February to filing cabinet it and terzetto other gaming bills.

Of those, the only if I that passed was House Bill 607, which reformed the state’s pari-mutuel taxes for gymnastic horse racing and eliminated breaking on payouts to bettors.

The other bills were House Bill 608, which would make prohibited greyness machines or attainment games, and House Bill 609, which would feature naturalized the state’s for the first time problem gambling fund.

HB 608 actually passed the Senate on Wednesday, but an amendment to the eyeshade forced it to depart indorse to the House for its concurrence.

Senate, House Fail to Reach Agreement

By Th afternoon, both Koenig and House Speaker David Osborne, R-Prospect, made it illuminate to reporters that the House would non deal the amended Gy games government note unless the Senate took upwardly sports betting.

Prior to that, KY Gov. Andy Beshear during a pressing group discussion called out Thayer for not being able to get under one's skin the votes inwards the Senate to notch the bill.

“My thought is if Damon Thayer wanted sports betting to pass, he’d have it passed,” said Beshear, who backs efforts to spread out gaming inward Kentucky. “It’s time. The people of Bluegrass State dead require this.”

Kentucky is surrounded by vii states. All of those except MO feature at to the lowest degree passed a sports betting law, and lawmakers inward Show Me State are considering it this session. Beshear, a Democrat, noted that several of Kentucky’s neighbors that feature sports betting passed it with GOP-led legislatures.

Thayer responded on societal media, dismissing Beshear’s comment as “irrelevant, come out of touch, and hyperpartisan.”

While Thayer and a number of other GOP senators backed the bill, Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, was not a supporter. Republicans controller 30 of the 38 seats inwards the Senate.

.@GovAndyBeshear once again plays political relation and shows a tot lack of understanding on how the law-makers works. Blaming me proves he’s totally irrelevant, out of stir & hyperpartisan.
I reenforcement #sportsbetting but i can’t pee people vote yes if they are opposed. https://t.co/XjGNYUqmP1
— damon thayer (@damon_thayer) April 14, 2022

Can Next Year live the Year?

A peak for the 2023 session is all but, to borrow a word from Koenig, inevitable at this point. While the session lasts 30 legislative days, he’ll make time to cope with with senators before the session starts. That includes those who testament follow freshly elected after the Nov elections.

Under Kentucky’s constitution, the odd-year sessions send for for any government note generating revenue to acquire a three-fifths legal age for passage. In the House, that would live 60 votes. In the Senate, that would be 23.

Last month, HB 606 passed in the House past a 58-30 margin. It likely would experience received 60 votes if a few members who were not nowadays had a chance to balloting on the bill. So, it may furuncle downwards to the Senate once again next year.

Based on the fastness Republicans have, and provided that does not exchange inwards the upcoming elections, Koenig would demand 16 GOP senators to indorse the bill. Most, if non all Democrats, would live expected to livelihood it.

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