\u201cI don\u2019t know if a week is enough,\u201d Heastie told reporters. \u201cSometimes that can be a lifetime. But the broad spectrum of concerns members raised, I don\u2019t know if that can be resolved.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAssemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) was particularly concerned with how betting could impact the perception of integrity in professional sports, and said that these issues were not addressed in the current bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the first game of the NBA final, if we had sports betting, everybody would have thought that player threw the game,\u201d Glick told The Buffalo News<\/em>, referring to J.R. Smith\u2019s decision to run out the clock in regulation with the score tied.<\/p>\nCan Amendments Save the Day?<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe situation in the state Senate may be more promising. According to State Senator John Bonacic (R-Orange County), there is likely enough support to pass the bill in his chamber. However, he has also said that the Republican-controlled Senate won\u2019t take up the legislation unless it first passes in the Assembly.<\/p>\n
In an effort to address some of the concerns from Assembly lawmakers, Bonacic and Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-Mount Vernon) are adding some amendments to the bill. The proposed integrity fees will be lowered from 0.25 percent of the amount bet on a league\u2019s games to 0.15 percent, while also allowing each licensee to operate only a single online betting platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that there\u2019s time to convince people sitting on the fence,\u201d Pretlow told The Buffalo News. \u201cI also think the governor might want to take credit for this but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re getting that much support [from the governor\u2019s office].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Unlike in some other states, New York may see sports betting soon regardless of what the legislature decides to do. When New York passed a constitutional amendment to allow for four upstate commercial casinos in 2013, language was included that made it legal for those venues to offer sports betting should federal regulations change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThose casinos could start operating sportsbooks as soon as the New York State Gaming Commission creates a regulatory framework for the practice. The bill under consideration in the legislature would allow for online betting, and would allow racetracks and OTB parlors to partner with those casinos to also offer sports betting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the same day that neighboring New Jersey opened its first sportsbooks, a prominent New York politician announced that his fellow legislators were unlikely to support a sports betting bill in 2018. New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told reporters on Thursday that there probably wasn\u2019t enough support in the Democratic Conference \u2013 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":80928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
New York Sports Betting Bill Appears Dead in State Assembly for 2018<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n