Legislation that would allow the Louisiana Gaming Control Board to ban those who harass collegiate athletes from placing bets in the state advances to the full Senate. Leesville Senator Mike Reese says a recent ESPN report found that one in three high profile college athletes receive abusive messages from bettors.
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Reese is the author of the legislation, and he noted that female athletes are harassed more than male athletes. He says Ohio and West Virginia have already passed this law and the NCAA is encouraging more states to do the same.
Reese says many of these threats are related to prop bets, which Louisiana has already prohibited on college contests.
One of Secretary of State Nancy Landry’s election integrity bills advances to the next step. House Bill 691, which provides for the investigation of non-citizens found to be on the state’s voter rolls, advances out of the House Governmental Affairs Committee on a party-line 9-to-7 vote and moves to the full House. Landry says a recent check of the state’s voter rolls through a federal database found hundreds of ineligible voters.
Lake Charles Democrat Wilford Carter accuses Landry of working to deny people the right to vote by sending the voter rolls to the federal government for a citizenship check.