{"id":71318,"date":"2020-05-13T20:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/?p=71318"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:54:06","slug":"louisiana-sports-betting-senate-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/louisiana-sports-betting-senate-us","title":{"rendered":"Senators in Louisiana back sports betting bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sen. Cameron Henry put his Bill for legal sports betting to Senators yesterday, who voted 29-8 in favour of the proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>US.- Sports betting is one step closer to becoming legal in Louisiana after lawmakers backed a proposal to regulate the activity in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Cameron Henry put his Bill for legal sports betting to Senators yesterday, who <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/legis.la.gov\/legis\/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171942\">voted 29-8<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in favour of the proposal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill calls for the question of whether to legalise sports betting to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot where residents will vote parish-by-parish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, legislators in the state fast-tracked the Bill <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/sports-betting-louisiana-us\">to the Senate with little objection<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill will now go to the House for debate. If it clears the House, it will then appear on the November ballot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Efforts to legalise sports betting in Louisiana in the past have fallen short, but following the casino closure due to Covid-19 there is growing optimism legislation will be passed into law this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Cameron Henry put his Bill for legal sports betting to Senators yesterday, who voted 29-8 in favour of the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,9,6644],"tags":[1879,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71333,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71318\/revisions\/71333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}