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The New Jersey Senate is to start work today on having a sports-betting bill ready to go should NJ voters approve legalising the form of gambling in a ballot referendum on 8 November.
The State Senate Gaming and Tourism Committee is due to hold a hearing in Trenton this morning to start on drafting a bill to implement Sports Betting, with Democratic Senator Jim Whelan stating the legislature could act on such a bill in a lame-duck session between the election and the end of the legislative term on 9 January, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
However, the existing ban on Sports Betting under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in place in New Jersey and all but four other US states would need to be overturned or repealed before the NJ bill could be implemented.
Senator Ray Lesniak and Senate President Stephen Sweeney’s attempt to have the federal Sports Betting ban under PASPA ruled unconstitutional was thrown out by a judge in March. The judge ruled NJ was not permitted to bring the lawsuit against the federal government as they could not prove the state had suffered from the Sports Betting ban, and that the lawsuit “put the cart before the horse” as NJ had yet to legalise sports betting.
“If this referendum should pass, we want to hit the ground running”, Whelan told the Press of Atlantic City
READ ENTIRE STORY HERE AT EGR
The State Senate Gaming and Tourism Committee is due to hold a hearing in Trenton this morning to start on drafting a bill to implement Sports Betting, with Democratic Senator Jim Whelan stating the legislature could act on such a bill in a lame-duck session between the election and the end of the legislative term on 9 January, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
However, the existing ban on Sports Betting under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in place in New Jersey and all but four other US states would need to be overturned or repealed before the NJ bill could be implemented.
Senator Ray Lesniak and Senate President Stephen Sweeney’s attempt to have the federal Sports Betting ban under PASPA ruled unconstitutional was thrown out by a judge in March. The judge ruled NJ was not permitted to bring the lawsuit against the federal government as they could not prove the state had suffered from the Sports Betting ban, and that the lawsuit “put the cart before the horse” as NJ had yet to legalise sports betting.
“If this referendum should pass, we want to hit the ground running”, Whelan told the Press of Atlantic City
READ ENTIRE STORY HERE AT EGR
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