Would-be Ohio sports bettors on Tuesday took one giant leap closer to being able to legally wager in the state, as SB 176 finally made its way, after 16 laborious hearings, out of committee.

But even with the bill finally getting to the Senate floor — where a vote is expected to take place as early as Wednesday — hiccups abounded. Most notably the committee having to wade through 45 proposed amendments requested by various members of the Ohio Senate.

“We got 45 amendments,” Sen. Kirk Schuring, the chair of the Ohio Senate Select Committee on Gaming, told Pam Cook of 1480 WHBC Monday. “So Senate leadership and I worked over the weekend to try and craft an omnibus amendment.”