The Senate approved the compact on Tuesday, with a 38-1 vote. The House approved the deal on Wednesday on a 97-17 vote. Jeanette Nuñez, especially of Miami-Dade lawmakers and conservative House members who privately view the measure as a risky expansion of gambling.Īs DeSantis held a veto threat over hundreds of legislative projects in the $110 billion budget, lawmakers who traditionally would have opposed the measure withheld their opposition. The measure, negotiated with the Tribe by DeSantis, required some aggressive lobbying by DeSantis and Lt. The tribe still gets their gaming expansion, and the state still gets their significant cut of the gaming revenue.“Congratulations on an historic compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida,’' said House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, at the conclusion of the vote, adding that the complex proposal “was a difficult one to navigate.” Don't think the Seminoles will care all that much about only being able to take sports bets entirely on their land, and I don't think the tribe's craps and roulette offerings will be affected at all. I think there's a very real chance that this weird sports betting arrangement will be struck down, but the only real losers would be the parimutuels. The anti-casino groups argue that being able to place bets on devices anywhere in FL and in coordination with commercial entities (parimutuels) means it's an expansion of non-tribal gaming that violates amendment 3. The tribe and state argues that since the internet servers taking the bets will all be on tribal land, it all falls under their jurisdiction. The real issue is that this new compact will allow sports bets to be placed on computers/phones anywhere in the state and allow the parimutuels to share sports betting revenue with the tribe.

Not surprising the Seminoles threw ~$25 million toward this amendment's passage. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the ability of the state or Native American tribes to negotiate gaming compacts pursuant to the Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act for the conduct of casino gambling on tribal lands The amendment text specifically exempts tribes from restrictions: Important to note though that the amendment only restricts new commercial gambling to voter approval, not tribal. Yeah, most of the legal drama will stem from 2018's Amendment 3.

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