DC Bill Bets On Sports Gambling To Fund Child Care, Arts

By Paul Williams (September 20, 2018, 6:38 PM EDT) -- A Washington, D.C., council member has introduced a bill to legalize sports betting in the nation's capital, wagering that an influx of gambling tax revenue would help fund early-childhood care and humanities initiatives throughout the district.

Council member Jack Evans, a Democrat, introduced the Sports Wagering Lottery Amendment Act of 2018 at a Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday. The bill would tax gross sports wagering revenue at 10 percent, with the money evenly split between childhood development programs for children up to 3 years old and the Commission on the Arts and Humanities. If those programs were fully funded, revenue...

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