Indiana’s push to authorize Hoosier Lottery online ticket sales and website-based instant games is done for this legislative session. House Bill 1078 cleared a House committee on January 8, but it was pulled from the House calendar and will not advance, according to House Public Policy Committee Chair Ethan Manning.
“It didn’t have enough support, really, from either caucus on the concept,” Manning told Tom Davis’ Indiana Capital Chronicle. “I don’t think I could have changed one word in the bill to gain any more votes. It’s just the idea itself. We’re clearly not ready, as a Legislature, to move any further on any forms of online gambling.”
