Last week the World Series of Politics asked where all the regulatory wins were in the 2023 legislative session, and around a day after it went live, Kentucky sports betting was signed into law. 

As Brendan Bussmann says, gaming tends to be the last issue for lawmakers to consider in the session, and this year is no different. Earlier in the session Kentucky looked like a ‘sleeper state’, Brandt Iden says, making it a great win for the session. 

House Bill 551’s passage was “a classic case of bipartisanship”, he adds, with the governor, Republicans and Democrats coming together to make it happen.