The Dallas Morning News

Attorney General Ken Paxton says daily fantasy sports games  should be classified as illegal gambling. But a legislative veteran aims to block him next year.

Rep. Richard Raymond, D-Laredo, will challenge Paxton’s opinion with a bill that would declare all fantasy sports to be “games of skill not games of chance.”

“I don’t think it’s right for government to propose kinds of limits and to outlaw it in a way, as the attorney general is suggesting,” Raymond said Thursday.

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