The language would allow the Legislature to tax sports betting and dump the proceeds into the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, similar to the current setup with the Florida Lottery.
It is backing a proposed amendment to open up the state’s sports betting market to all comers sans oversight from the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The largest report was posted by Florida Education Champions, which raked in $20 million from DraftKings and FanDuel. It was one of four eight-figure finance reports in some way related to gaming posted on the Florida Division of Elections website Tuesday. This year, Florida Voters in Charge has $17 million ready to go for a statewide petition gathering effort to make the ballot. Dana Young took a stab at it two years later during her time in the House, but that bill also flubbed. Ellyn Bogdanoff sponsored bills ( SB 710/ SB 712/ SB 714) that would have opened the door for three such megacasinos in South Florida.
The effort was backed by No Casinos and heavily funded by the Seminole Tribe and Disney.īefore the 2018 amendment passed, a handful of lawmakers carried bills that would have brought destination hotel casinos to the state. Most of its efforts came before 2018, when voters OK’d a constitutional amendment that requires gaming expansions to get statewide ballot approval.
