South Dakota sports betting is currently limited to retail sportsbooks indoors Deadwood gaming parlors and tribal casinos. Legislation introduced inward 2022 that has already found reinforcement inwards a Senate commission seeks to expand such play to online channels.

Senate Resolution 502 would clear land-based sportsbooks to facilitate remote wagers for bettors crossways South Dakota. The statute would require sportsbook electronic computer servers used to ease the electronic wagering to live housed within Deadwood urban center limits or a tribe’s crowned head territory.

The solving narrowly passed the Senate Commerce and Energy Committee yesterday past a 5-4 vote. The proposed province constitutional amendment at present heads to the replete(p) Senate trading floor for additional consideration.

Roadblocks Ahead

South Dakota is bordered past half-dozen states. Five feature passed laws authorizing sports betting, but only if Ioway and WY experience approved online wagering. Backers of Senate Resolution 502 indicate it’s time to stay fresh wandering sports gaming money flowing into those 2 states at home.

We consider IA siphoning hard cash all the clip for sports betting,” Seth Pearman, an attorney representing the Flandreau Eastern Sioux Siouan Tribe, told the Senate Commerce and Energy Committee before its vote.

Pearman added that in states where roving sportsbooks are legal, around 80 percent of the palm is existence facilitated online. He says adding roving books to sports betting would facilitate casinos and sportsbook operators to protect the substantial brick-and-mortar investments they’ve made inwards the state.

Not everyone agrees, however, and some are questioning wherefore the Legislature is spearheading the gambling change. Residents hold the sanction to pioneer constitutional amendments by right smart of theme song gathering.

While a full constitutional amendment requires a suppliant to collect signatures of registered voters equalize to decade percent of the sum ballot for regulator inwards the finally gubernatorial election, a petition to amend an existing country statute — such as the state’s sports betting Federal Reserve note already on the books — only if fivesome percent of the previous gubernatorial balloting is needed.

South Dakota Department of Revenue Deputy Secretary David Wiest said the project should be initiated by the people — not lawmakers. If legislators seek to amend the law, Wiest argues that they too should show the state decent keep for the question past signature collecting.

“They want to disperse petitions for signatures just now the like everyone else,” Wiest declared.

South Dakota affords body politic lawmakers the power to also pioneer constitutional changes, but without mandatory signature gathering stipulations. If a resolve passes both legislative chambers with a unsubdivided majority, the interrogative sentence heads to voters where a three-fifths supermajority outcome is required for passage.

Gambling Saturation

Along with the land Revenue Department’s judgment that the public — non politicians — should be prompting the sports betting amendment — others voiced opposition to more accessible gambling.

I believe we really need to layover and reckon before we supply another way of fundamentally habit-forming gaming in this body politic for people to come inward the back up of convenience stores and gas stations piece their families tour without the money spent on this picture lottery 2.0,” opined Rep. Robert Falcon Scott Odenbach (R-Spearfish).

Deadwood casinos are required to pay a $5,000 licensing fee for sports betting privileges, with yearbook renewals localize at $2,000. Sportsbook gross revenue is subjected to a nine percent tax. The sports betting expansion resolving does non specialise whether potential online sportsbook income would live taxed higher, as is the case inward to the highest degree states that have got sound in-person and online wagering.