{"id":1072,"date":"2024-01-18T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:12:48","slug":"florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lawmakers Eye Gambling Revenue to Fund Environment Initiates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Tabla de contenidos<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates\/#Florida_Bill_Funding\" title=\"Florida Bill Funding\">Florida Bill Funding<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates\/#_Floridas_Sole_Betting_App\" title=\"\u00a0Florida\u2019s Sole Betting App\">\u00a0Florida\u2019s Sole Betting App<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Florida lawmakers are doubling on proposals to use sports betting money to expand environmental projects further. The 2024 legislative session began with bills to benefit parks and waterways in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236203\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-236203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-858x572.jpeg\" alt=\"Florida sign\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-858x572.jpeg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-430x287.jpeg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-302x200.jpeg 302w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-238x158.jpeg 238w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1-194x128.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_adobe_express-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">A \u201cWelcome to Florida\u201d sign greets travelers to the state.\u00a0 (Image: Katherine Welles\/Adobe Stock Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Sarasota) introduced House Bill 1417, which is focused on spending most of the revenue from gambling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2024\/01638\/?Tab=RelatedBills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 1638, <\/a>introduced by Sen. Travis Hutson (R \u2013 7th District), specified funding for environmental management and protections, including research.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Senate President Kathleen Passidimo (R-Naples) told Senators in her opening remarks she supports gambling revenue to fund land acquisition and conservation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>Using these new revenues to acquire and manage conservations lands and invest in our clean water infrastructure will be a phenomenal return on investment for our state,\u201d Passidimo said. \u201cI hope the legislation will earn your support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) also backs the idea of using funds from gambling for conservation-related projects.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Florida_Bill_Funding\"><\/span>Florida Bill Funding<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>SB 1638 would use an \u201cindeterminate\u201d amount of revenue available from a gambling deal that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reached with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The gaming compact deal was struck in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Legal challenges claimed Florida sports betting violated a constitutional amendment requiring voter approval of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The gaming compact was vacated pending appeals. The Seminole Tribe successfully appealed, and the DC District Court of Appeals overturned a decision that blocked regulated sports betting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Nov. 1, 2023, the Seminole Tribe said it would launch retail sports betting at its casinos on Dec. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As reported by <em>Casino.org,<\/em> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/online-sports-betting-now-open-to-all-in-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hard Rock Bet app became available<\/a> to eligible users in Florida on Dec. 5, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the compact, the tribe pledged to pay $2.5 billion to the state over the first five years and perhaps billions more during the three-decade deal.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Floridas_Sole_Betting_App\"><\/span>\u00a0Florida\u2019s Sole Betting App<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The only legal sports betting app in the Sunshine State is Hard Rock Bet, which is available on iOS and Android. All other sports betting platforms licensed in other US states aren\u2019t allowed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Early bipartisan support exists for the proposals to use some sports betting revenue for land acquisition. House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell (D-Tampa) said members of her party would support using the money to protect waterways and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The amount of money from sports wagering that would fund the environmental goals still needs to be negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gambling-revenue-to-fund-florida-environment-pushed-in-pair-of-proposals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Lawmakers Eye Gambling Revenue to Fund Environment Initiates<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida lawmakers are doubling on proposals to use sports betting money to expand environmental projects further. The 2024 legislative session began with bills to benefit parks and waterways in the Sunshine State. A \u201cWelcome to Florida\u201d sign greets travelers to the state.\u00a0 (Image: Katherine Welles\/Adobe Stock Images) Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Sarasota) introduced House Bill 1417, <a href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/florida-lawmakers-eye-gambling-revenue-to-fund-environment-initiates\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}