Minnesota lawmakers continue to tinker with and advance legal sports betting legislation, but time is limited, and those tweaks may not be enough to win over doubters and may even prompt pushback from supporters.

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The Minnesota Senate Taxes Committee approved an amended version of SF 1949 on Thursday and referred it to the chamber’s finance committee.

Senate File 1949 is a companion bill to House File 2000, and both measures would authorize retail and online sports betting in Minnesota, which remains one of a shrinking number of states without any authorized forms of event wagering.

Both bills would also put Minnesota’s federally recognized Native American tribes in the driver’s seat.