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Gambling boats have operated at times out of Texas ports, taking passengers on one-day "cruises to nowhere" in international waters, where there are no gambling laws. The casino cruise industry developed in other states in the early 1980s, but was a latecomer to Texas because of a state law prohibiting the docking of ships with gambling ...
When lawmakers tried to expand gambling in 2021, legislation didn’t make it far. Bills for limited casino gambling and sports betting got committee hearings but didn’t make it to the floors of ...
The casino at an unspecified site would have to be picked through an open bid, located at least 100 miles away the cities where the other casinos are located and in a county that approved casinos ...
A Fort Worth representative has filed legislation to expand casino gambling in Texas and legalize sports betting.. Republican Rep. Charlie Geren filed the proposal on Friday. The legislation is ...
Legislation to legalize either would have had to take the form of a constitutional amendment, requiring supermajority support in both legislative chambers, as well as approval from voters. The proposal to legalize online sports betting received 101 votes in the House, one above the supermajority threshold, but the bill to legalize casino ...
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas, 596 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether the state of Texas could control and regulate gambling on Texan Native American reservations. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that the Restoration Act bans only gaming activities also banned by the state of ...
One bettor has already placed a $1.5 million bet on Texas to win it all—at odds of +390, their payout would be $5.75 million. Wagers have poured in from 38 states that have legalized sports betting.
For the 2023 legislative session, Texas took gambling legislation to a new level. Before the session began, legislators filed five gambling bills. Some look to legalize sports betting as well as casino gambling while others look for harsher punishments for breaking Texas gambling laws.