Sports betting won't be legal in Georgia after lawmakers couldn't agree on how to spend taxes

A huge TV screen at the entrance of Churchill's Bourbon & Brew Bar & Grille, flanked by electronic gaming machines, promotes sports betting at Turfway Park Racing & Gaming, Dec. 22, 2023, in Florence, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Updated Friday, March 29, at 1:00 a.m.

An effort to authorize sports betting in Georgia has failed for another year, after lawmakers couldn’t agree on how to spend money collected on taxes.

Neither a proposed state constitutional amendment or authorizing legislation ever came to a vote in the House, after a committee passed it out early on Thursday, the last day of the 2024 legislative session.