On final day, Missouri legislature fails in bid to approve sports betting

Saturday, May 13, 2023 2:18 PM
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  • Kurt Erickson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missourians hoping to place bets on sporting events will have to wait at least another year after Republican infighting in the Missouri Senate left a handful of high-profile issues unresolved as the Legislature adjourned for the year Friday.

Along with a furious, last-minute failed push to tax and regulate wagering on sports, a chaotic final day in the upper chamber meant the demise of a bid to reduce the state’s personal property tax on vehicles. The Senate also failed to sign off on a proposal to make it harder to alter the state constitution before the final gavel sounded.

The House had a higher success rate as it chugged toward adjournment.