New DC Sports Betting Bill Seeks To End 'Embarrassing Episode'

A new bill would open the Washington DC sports betting market up to more District-wide mobile operators and could end DC’s relationship with Intralot.

DC Councilmember Elissa Silverman‘s legislation would add a new class of mobile DC sportsbooks and prevent the council from exercising a five-year extension in 2024. The bill would have to pass by the end of the year or be reintroduced for the 2023-24 legislative session.

“We need to turn the page on this embarrassing episode,” Silverman said. “Residents deserve an online app that works, taxpayers deserve a program that brings in money for the District, and we all deserve a system where we don’t hand huge contracts to a preferred company and its subcontractors without even looking at the competition.”

Fellow Councilmembers Brooke Pinto, Mary Cheh and Charles Allen co-introduced the bill.

DC sports betting has consistently underperformed

  
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