More than two months before the start of 2024 state legislative sessions, it appears that stakeholders, pundits, and anyone else with an interest in legal sports betting is pinning their hopes on Georgia, the biggest state with potential to legalize next year.
In mid-October, a contingent from Entain visited with Georgia lawmakers in an effort to begin crafting a wagering bill that could pass the legislature in a state that has struggled to come to a consensus for at least three years. The closest call was in 2021 with a bill that would have allowed statewide mobile betting, but the effort was quashed when the Democrats pulled support over separate issues with the state’s voting rights bill.
