Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol are delaying the vote to bring online sports betting into the state, and keep it with the tribes.

Assembly second in command Rep. Tyler August, R-Walworth, told reporters that the proposal won’t be called for a vote until after the new year.

“There’s really no rush on this,” August explained. “The Senate is not coming back this week. I had a conversation with a couple members over the weekend that brought up some points that I hadn’t considered yet, so we’re going to work through those. I expect we will be voting on it early next year.”

A lot of conservatives inside and outside of the Capitol don’t like the proposal because it would guarantee Wisconsin’s tribes 60% of the revenue created by online sports betting. A number of the big gambling companies like DraftKings also don’t like the legislation.

August would not say what points were brought-up over the weekend, but he said they were not constitutional questions as to whether Wisconsin can keep the state’s gambling business primarily with the tribes.

“If you talk to the attorneys, most of the constitutional questions that have been raised in the media and other places were actually settled in front of the state supreme court in 2006,” August said. “So there is no constitutional issue with this at all.”

August said he believes lawmakers will “get there” on the plan. In fact, he said they were pretty much “there” already.

“If we voted on it today it’d pass, for sure,” August added.

The online sports betting law is one of the few that has broad support from both Republicans and Democrats. Gov. Tony Evers has even said he is in favor of the proposal, as long as it keeps the bulk of the gambling with the tribes.

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This article was originally published by The MacIver Institute.