Lawmakers in North Carolina are proposing the state use a new revenue source to help pay high school coaches.
That source?
Sports betting.
Dubbed the Keeping Our Coaches Act, Senate Bill 657 was filed last week. It’s a bipartisan bill sponsored by three Democrats and three Republicans. It already had its first reading last Wednesday and currently sits with the Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate.
The bill would set aside $11 million of taxes from North Carolina sportsbooks annually “to provide salary supplements to all eligible athletic coaches” at public schools “to ensure that each eligible athletic coach receives a total annual salary supplement for serving as an athletic coach of at least three thousand dollars ($3,000).”
