Iowa daily fantasy bill fails

Iowa Rep. Matt Windschitl’s DFS legalisation bill H52 – and for that matter a companion bill SSB1183 in the state Senate – have failed to advance in time to escape the state legislature’s session adjournment and will be back to square one in the next season.

Hopes were high for H52, was approved by the House Committee on Ways and Means but did not make it to a floor vote in time.

The failure of the Iowa initiative brings to 4 the number of failures in 24 individual state proposals to legalise DFS; the successful initiatives so far have been:

Alabama
Connecticut
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Maine
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Vermont
Washington
Maine

Proposals in Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa and Kentucky have thus far failed.

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