{"id":2600,"date":"2021-06-16T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:15:29","slug":"another-update-on-sports-betting-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Another Update on Sports Betting in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, a substitute Senate Bill 176 was introduced<\/a>, which made a litany of changes to Ohio\u2019s proposed sports betting industry. And today, a few days after those changes were introduced, an omnibus amendment was passed to make even more changes to the bill, which was referred out of the Ohio Senate over to the House. Here is a summary of some of the most significant changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lottery is Out, but Bars and Restaurants are In<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sports gaming lottery pool has been removed from the\nbill. Instead, there will now be an unlimited number of Type C host licenses\navailable to D liquor permit holders that wish to be licensed to host sports\nbetting kiosks in their establishments. D liquor permit holders wishing to host\nsports betting kiosks must be licensed by the Casino Control Commission and pay\na $6,000 license fee, which will be good for three years with a $6,000 fee due\nupon each renewal. Sports betting kiosks will be limited in the bets they can\noffer to moneyline, spread, and over\/under bets, and no patron can bet more than\n$200 per day on a sports betting kiosk. There can also be no more than two\nkiosks in each licensed establishment. The kiosks must accept only credit and\ndebit cards and payouts must be made back to the card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports betting kiosks will be provided by Type C sports\ngaming proprietors (a nomenclature change from \u201cgaming agent\u201d made throughout\nthe bill). No fewer than 3 and no more than 20 Type C proprietor licenses will\nbe granted. Type C proprietor licenses will have an initial fee of $100,000 and\na renewal fee of $25,000 every three years. Type C proprietors will be held to\nthe same standards in respect to suitability, background checks, and financial\nproof as A and B licenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Licenses, but Geographic Limits on Type B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amount of available Type A licenses (online gaming)\nincreases from 20 to 25. The amount of Type B licenses (brick and mortar)\nincreases from 20 to 33. However, Type B licenses shall be allowed only in\ncounties with populations greater than 100,000, per the 2010 census. The volume\nof licenses available in the county will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Population <\/strong><\/td> No. of Type B Licenses <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Less than 100,000 <\/td>\n 0\n <\/td><\/tr>
100,000-500,000 <\/td>\n 1\n <\/td><\/tr>
500,000-1,000,000 <\/td>\n 2\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n 1,000,000+\n <\/td>\n 3\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

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Type B licenses will be available only to entities that can\ndemonstrate significant economic activity in the county in which the license is\nto be operated. Type B licenses will be subject to an initial application fee\nof $100,000 with $25,000 renewal fees due every three years. Type A licenses\nwill have an initial fee of $1,000,000 and the same is due upon renewal every\nthree years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Professional Teams Get Preference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio professional teams (NBA\/NFL\/MLB\/NHL\/MLS) and facilities\nthat host annual PGA Tour tournaments (i.e. Muirfield) and the promotor of a\nNASCAR race in the state (Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course) will all have preference\nfor Type A and B Licenses. However, if a team leaves Ohio it automatically\nloses its licenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional Changes and Items of Note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other changes include the creation of a definition for\nMobile Management Service Provider for Type A licenses, the express inclusion\nof Esports as included in the definition of sporting events, and the\nelimination of the prohibition on wagering on events with participants younger\nthan 18. With respect to the age prohibition, the logic is that some tennis\nmatches and Olympic competitors may be younger than 18, so the Casino Control\nCommission will have discretion on whether to authorize wagering on those\nevents. This also harmonizes the reporting threshold for back taxes and child\nsupport with the threshold found in the IRS code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Senator Kirk Schuring, chair of the Senate Select\nCommittee on Gaming, stated that the goal would be to pass the legislation no\nlater than June 30. One of the changes to the bill was to eliminate the\nprohibition on wagering before January 1, 2022. However, that doesn\u2019t mean\nwagering on sports will necessarily be allowed before then as the omnibus\namendment instituted new requirements that the Casino Control Commission accept\nsports gaming proprietor licenses beginning on January 1, 2022, and begin issuing\nlicenses no later than April 1, 2022. It would be safe to assume there will be\nno wagering before the first licenses are issued, so sports wagering may not be\navailable in Ohio until April or May of 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the bill has passed the Senate, it\u2019s onto the Ohio\nHouse and we will see what, if any, changes await it there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was co-authored by Robert Dove<\/a>, a gaming law attorney with Kegler Brown,\nand Mike Zatezalo<\/a>, chair of the firm\u2019s Gaming Law\npractice. Robert and Mike will continue to provide updates on this evolving\nlegislation and are already partnering with established operators and emerging\nbusinesses on potential licensure, lobbying assistance and supply chain\nstrategy as those businesses prepare to maximize their opportunities in\nanticipation of new sports betting opportunities in Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, a substitute Senate Bill 176 was introduced, which made a litany of changes to Ohio\u2019s proposed sports betting industry. And today, a few days after those changes were introduced, an omnibus amendment was passed to make even more changes to the bill, which was referred out of the Ohio Senate over to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[130,131,129,27,86],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions","tag-casino","tag-legislation","tag-mobile-betting","tag-racino","tag-sports-betting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87ey3-FW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}