A committee studying Georgia tourism added a recommendation to legalize mobile sports betting to its final report released Monday.
The Senate Study Committee on Making Georgia the No. 1 State for Tourism did not discuss the recommendation, which was added at the last minute, Chairman Drew Echols, R-Gainesville, told TCS in an email.
At the committee’s last meeting, Nick Fernandez, government affairs coordinator for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, told the committee that North Carolina uses 30% of its sports betting revenues to attract major events.
“It was a simple recommendation much like the rest of the list,” Echols said. “The recommendations are just that. Hard to say how many if any of the recommendations will come to fruition.”
