Gambling, or gaming as it’s referred to, amounted to over $1.1 billion in revenue for the Commonwealth last year. And as new and old forms of gambling become more popular, Virginia legislators and its governor are looking to consolidate oversight of the changing landscape.
Casinos, lottery, sports betting, online gaming, charitable gaming, BINGO, live horse racing, historic horse racing: there are lots of ways to get rich quick, or at least go broke trying, in the Commonwealth these days.
But as modern gaming mixes with the old, and annual revenues tick up in the billions, Virginia’s legislature and Governor Glenn Youngkin want to create one authority to oversee as much of it as possible.
