UPDATED: Kentucky Sports Betting Bill Clears Legislature in Session’s Final Day
In the end, legalizing sports betting in Kentucky on Thursday came down to politics. Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers (right) speaks with Senate Democratic Leader Gerald Neal on the floor of the Senate Thursday. Hours later, the chamber would vote to pass a bill to legalize sports betting. (Image: Casino.org) Lawmakers in the General Assembly, seeking to wrap up a few pieces of significant legislation on the final day of the 2023 session, came to agreements to pass sports betting and other issues, including on a bill that reforms how the state will tax bourbon barrels. Bourbon and betting. That’s so Kentucky. Both bills cleared the chamber early Thursday evening, …