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It sounds like the start of a joke — What does Iowa have that Minnesota doesn't?
For some state lawmakers the answer is legal Sports Betting — and it's no joke. They say after a failed attempt earlier this year they'll try again next year to add Minnesota to a growing number of states that allow people to legally bet on sports.
Legalized Sports Betting began in Iowa last month. Minnesotans can place bets at a casino just a few miles over the state line. A dozen other states also allow Sports Betting, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year opened the door for it.
A Minnesota Senate committee advanced a bill earlier this year to allow Sports Betting at tribal casinos and the state’s two horse-racing tracks. It would have also allowed people to bet by linking their phones to authorized sites. But the bill went no further, and a version in the House never got a hearing.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Roger Chamberlain, R-Lino Lakes, said he will try again next year.
“Iowa is doing it, for God’s sake,” he said. “That should be embarrassment enough for us to start doing it up here.”
It sounds like the start of a joke — What does Iowa have that Minnesota doesn't?
For some state lawmakers the answer is legal Sports Betting — and it's no joke. They say after a failed attempt earlier this year they'll try again next year to add Minnesota to a growing number of states that allow people to legally bet on sports.
Legalized Sports Betting began in Iowa last month. Minnesotans can place bets at a casino just a few miles over the state line. A dozen other states also allow Sports Betting, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year opened the door for it.
A Minnesota Senate committee advanced a bill earlier this year to allow Sports Betting at tribal casinos and the state’s two horse-racing tracks. It would have also allowed people to bet by linking their phones to authorized sites. But the bill went no further, and a version in the House never got a hearing.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Roger Chamberlain, R-Lino Lakes, said he will try again next year.
“Iowa is doing it, for God’s sake,” he said. “That should be embarrassment enough for us to start doing it up here.”
