Wyoming lawmakers have resurrected the plan for establishing a state gambling commission.
The Legislature’s Joint Travel, Recreation and Cultural Resources Committee had nixed the idea of a regulatory body to oversee everything from poker games to sports betting.
The state Pari-Mutuel Commission is currently overseeing gambling in Wyoming and regulates only horse racing. Horse racing accounts for roughly $12 million in state and local taxes annually.
Republican Sen. Ogden Driskill made a Management Council motion to form a task force to examine expanding the commission’s oversight.
A similar proposal failed in the Legislature this year. Driskill says Wyoming is not currently regulating gambling “and doing nothing is going to lead to bad results.”
