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Online Sports Betting Initiative Receives Enough Signatures To Be on 2022 Ballot

May 4, 2022 7:38 pm

A group pushing to legalize online sports betting announced on Tuesday that they have received enough signatures to place a proposition to legalize the practice in California. Californians for Solutions to Homelessness and Mental Health Support (CA Solutions), a group...

Sports Betting Constitutional Amendment Qualifies For 2022 Ballot in California

May 28, 2021 11:05 am

A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow sport betting at tribal casinos and horse-racing track, as well as craps and roulette at tribal casinos, garnered enough signatures on Thursday to get on the 2022 ballot. The office of the Secretary...

Legalized Sports Betting Bill Passes Senate Committee

June 3, 2020 2:26 pm

On Tuesday, California moved closer to legalizing sports betting with the Senate Governmental Organization Committee passing a bill 9-3 along party lines to change the state constitution to allow such betting at select locations across the state. SCA 6 and...

Two Sports Betting Initiatives Prepare For Assembly and Senate Battles in 2020

December 23, 2019 9:09 pmDecember 24, 2019 8:55 am

Two different initiatives to make sports betting legal in California will soon be facing the next steps for a November ballot vote. The Gray and Dodd bill One initiative, ACA 16, proposes a widespread legalization of sports betting, similar to...

California Inches Closer To Legalizing Sports Betting

November 13, 2019 3:21 pm

The movement to legalize sports betting in California faces a busy second half of November as a hearing and tribal input threaten the long opposed measure. Assembly Constitution Amendment 16, authored by Senator Bill Dodd (D-Napa) and Assemblyman Adam Gray...