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State Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, speaks about SR 579, a resolution proposing an amendment to the Georgia Constitution to allow sports betting in the state, at the Senate in the Capitol in Atlanta, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Cowsert sponsored the resolution, which passed. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
State Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, speaks about SR 579, a resolution proposing an amendment to the Georgia Constitution to allow sports betting in the state, at the Senate in the Capitol in Atlanta, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Cowsert sponsored the resolution, which passed. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
State Sen. Marty Harbin, R-Tyrone, speaks against SR 579, a resolution proposing an amendment to the Georgia Constitution to allow sports betting in the state, at the Senate in the Capitol in Atlanta, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. The resolution passed. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
ATLANTA (AP) — An effort to authorize sports betting in Georgia has failed for another year, after lawmakers couldn’t agree on how to spend money collected on taxes.
Neither a proposed state constitutional amendment or authorizing legislation ever came to a vote in the House, after a committee passed it out early on Thursday, the last day of the 2024 legislative session.
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