Off-track betting bill clears Senate committee

The Senate State Affairs Committee has voted 5-4 in favor of HB 191, the bill to allow licenses for off-track betting on simulcasts of live horse races to be transferred off of local fairgrounds racetrack facilities to more suitable locations. All the testimony on the bill was in favor. The bill, which previously passed the House, now moves to the full Senate with a recommendation that it “do pass.”