House Bill 1027, by Rep. Ken Luttrell, R-Ponca City, won easy passage in a friendly appropriations subcommittee chaired by Luttrell himself. At a minimum, HB 1027 still has to get through the full House Appropriations and Budget Committee, the House floor, a Senate committee or two, the Senate floor and the governor before it could become law. And that’s only if it isn’t changed much along the way, which doesn’t sound likely.
“What we are seeing now will not be the final bill,” Luttrell told the committee.
The bill would authorize in-person and digital sports gambling through Oklahoma’s tribal gaming compacts. Luttrell, a Cherokee citizen, carried a similar bill in the last Legislature,but it went no further than the committee stage of consideration.
