{"id":106325,"date":"2019-06-05T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=106325"},"modified":"2019-06-05T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:18:18","slug":"alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Quietly Legalizes Daily Fantasy Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama DFS fans could soon be logged back onto DraftKings and FanDuel, three years after the operators were warned off by then-state attorney general Luther Strange for offering \u201cillegal gambling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Alabama
Gov. Kay Ivey\u2019s signing of the Alabama DFS bill on Friday, two days after it had been passed by the legislature, was not picked up by media until this week. FanDuel said it was \u201cworking hard\u201d to reenter the market. (Image: Toronto Star)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Republican governor Kay Ivey signed the Alabama DFS bill on Friday, two days after it had been emphatically approved by the Senate — a fact that flew completely under the radar until it was spotted by Bloomberg Tax<\/em> this week.<\/p>\n

Under Alabama\u2019s new law, the contests will be overseen by the attorney general\u2019s office. The biggest operators, with more than $10 million in revenues, will pay an annual registration fee of $85,000, while small operators will pay just $1,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Operators will be taxed at 10.5 percent on gross revenues, due to an amendment added last week by the Senate. Main sponsor Rep. Kyle South (R-Fayette) had originally proposed an 8.2 percent tax.<\/p>\n

No Timeline for FanDuel<\/strong><\/h2>\n

South\u2019s bill sought to have DFS declared a game of skill and therefore exempt from the gambling laws Strange said it violated in 2016.<\/p>\n

No offense to my mom, but if we play ten times, I\u2019m going to beat her all ten times,\u201d he told Yellowhammer last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a simple but compelling argument and one enthusiastically swallowed by Senators last week by a margin of 22-8, despite the Senate having become the graveyard<\/a> of previous Alabama DFS bills over the past few years. The bill had previously been passed by the House by 74-22.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing you can point to are all these major league baseball teams, these professional sports teams are going to an analytics-based system for choosing their players, and that\u2019s all we\u2019re doing here,\u201d South explained.<\/p>\n

No word yet on a timeline for DraftKings and FanDuel to return to Alabama, although a FanDuel spokesman told LegalSportsReport<\/em> that the company was \u201cworking hard to bring our fantasy sports products to Alabama residents.\u201d The spokesman thanked South for his hard work and promised to provide more details soon.<\/p>\n

Legislative Lottery<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, some state residents are scratching their heads and wondering why the legislature can so enthusiastically pass a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports but cannot get their heads around authorizing a lottery.<\/p>\n

Revenues states generate from DFS are modest — Alabama expects to bring in around $4 million in annual revenue \u2013 while it\u2019s estimated a lottery would produce revenues of $167 million a year for Alabama, one of the poorest states in the nation.<\/p>\n

The state is one of only six -\u2013 along with Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah — that does not have a lottery, and the legislative push to introduce one fails year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama DFS fans could soon be logged back onto DraftKings and FanDuel, three years after the operators were warned off by then-state attorney general Luther Strange for offering \u201cillegal gambling.\u201d Republican governor Kay Ivey signed the Alabama DFS bill on Friday, two days after it had been emphatically approved by the Senate — a fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":106332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14007,13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlabama Governor Quietly Legalizes Daily Fantasy Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alabama DFS bill has been signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey but there\u2019s still no sign of a lottery on the horizon, despite millions it would bring.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alabama Governor Quietly Legalizes Daily Fantasy Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alabama DFS bill has been signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey but there\u2019s still no sign of a lottery on the horizon, despite millions it would bring.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-05T18:18:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kay-ivey.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1086\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"767\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/\",\"name\":\"Alabama Governor Quietly Legalizes Daily Fantasy Sports\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kay-ivey.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-05T18:18:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-05T18:18:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Alabama DFS bill has been signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey but there\u2019s still no sign of a lottery on the horizon, despite millions it would bring.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alabama-governor-kay-ivey-quietly-legalizes-daily-fantasy-sports\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kay-ivey.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kay-ivey.jpg\",\"width\":1086,\"height\":767,\"caption\":\"Gov. 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