Ohio lawmakers have been considering legalizing sports betting ever since the US Supreme Court ruled last year that states are allowed to do that. But there are two very different ideas on how to make that happen.
The bipartisan bill from Reps. and would have sports betting in casinos, racinos and fraternal and veterans鈥� organizations at first. But because it would be regulated by the , sports gambling could be expanded to bars, stores and other lottery vendors. Republican Sen. introduced a sports betting bill with Democrat which would name the as the regulator, and casinos and racinos as the only locations.
鈥淵ou would not see sports betting cards in your 7-11 next to the Keno board," Eklund said.
Eklund said there鈥檚 a big difference between sports gambling and lottery games 鈥� and he鈥檚 concerned about underage players and about people who don鈥檛 know anything about sports.
Correction: This article originally stated that the U.S. Supreme Court made its ruling on sports betting last June.
