The U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 struck down a law that generally banned sports betting. Since then, states including New Jersey, New Mexico and Pennsylvania have legalized it.
Many others have introduced bills to legalize sports betting, including Arizona. Senate Bill 1158 would allow Arizona tribes to operate sports betting and sets out other guidelines for how that’d work. The measure was scheduled to be heard in a Senate committee Thursday morning.
To talk about what that could mean for Arizona, The Show reached out to Steve Hart, an attorney with the firm Lewis & Roca who practices Indian law and gaming law, among other things, as well as economist Jim Rounds, president of Rounds Consulting.
