BILL · 2019–20 SESSION
SB 6277: Sports wagering
Authorizing sports wagering at tribal casinos, card rooms, and racetracks.
Summary
- Authorizes sport wagering through sports pools and online sport pools by tribal casinos, pursuant to compacts, and by licensed card rooms and racetracks.
- Allows wagers to be placed in person, through self-service machines at the complex, or through online sports pool; all wagers must generally be places in the state.
- Prohibits certain activities and person and entities from placing wagers or owning a sport wagering operator; and provides penalties.
- Modifies and expands the Gambling Commission's authority related to sport wagering.
- Provides a 10 percent tax on gaming revenue.
From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 6277), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 14, 2020
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Curtis King (R-14)
- Introduced
- January 14, 2020 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 14, 2020
- Companion bill
- HB 2478
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to authorizing sports wagering at tribal casinos, card rooms, and racetracks;
Sponsors
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
SB 6277 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6277 (2025–26) Military families/education
- SB 6277 (2023–24) Transportation partnerships
- SB 6277 (2017–18) Graduated reentry program
- SB 6277 (2015–16) Presidential primary date
- SB 6277 (2013–14) Electrician cert./ltd energy
- SB 6277 (2011–12) Multiple-unit dwellings
- SB 6277 (2009–10) Disposition of human remains
- SB 6277 (2007–08) Private transit providers