Vermont Committee Suggests new York-Like Sports Betting Model The committee studying whether and how to legalize sports wagering in Vermont has put the finishing touches on its suggestions, consisting of the idea that lawmakers might wish to embrace a model comparable to the high-tax jurisdictions of New Hampshire and New York. After fulfilling throughout the fall, Vermont's Sports Betting Study Committee fulfilled again briefly today to settle its report to the legislature, which advises the New England state legalize and license online sports betting sites. Doing so would assist convert the state's existing, illegal market for sports wagering into a "robust, regulated market," the report states, in addition to supplying customers with more protection and generating tax profits for the state. Back in the New York groove The final report to the legislature recommends a minimum of 2 but not more than six online sportsbook operators for Vermont, the only New England state that has not yet legalized sports betting. Moreover, the report recommends a "state-control" design that will pick those operators through a competitive bidding process for "special agreements" to provide sports wagering in the state. And, while the committee agreed that a state-controlled design would be best for legal sports betting in Vermont, which has no casinos or racetracks, the members likewise concurred that the state shouldn't provide its own wagering platform by means of the lotto. Instead, the committee members desire something more along the lines of what some other close-by jurisdictions have actually done. "The Committee recommends that a sports betting costs need to establish a competitive bidding process for the selection of the State's sports betting operators," the report said. "The competitive bidding process might be structured to be comparable to New Hampshire or New York.