Leave It to the Courts<\/strong><\/h2>\nBut Pretlow\u2019s bill would not have just added mobile into the mix but would have allowed businesses like sports stadiums and racetracks to offer wagering as affiliates of the four casinos, via sports betting kiosks.<\/p>\n
He and his associate in the Senate, Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), believe the affiliate model would be constitutional because the betting transactions would be taking place at the four casinos because that is where the servers would be based.<\/p>\n
But for a full vote in the Assembly, the bill would first need to clear two key committees, and with time running out on Tuesday there was nothing scheduled.<\/p>\n
Pretlow told The Times Union<\/em> the legislature should pass the bill and leave the question of constitutionality to the courts.<\/p>\n“I think we should give the people of New York the opportunity to do what they want to do, which is bet on sporting events,” Pretlow said. “I respect the speaker, but he’s not a member of the Court of Appeals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York\u2019s mobile sports betting bill may have been passed by the State Senate with flying colors on Monday but by the time it hit the State Assembly it was on life support, according to its sponsor Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-Mount Vernon). With the legislative session due to end Wednesday, Pretlow told The New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":107345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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