Not contented with just regulating fantasy sports, a state assemblyman wants to take things further and has expressed interest in passing a law that would legalize sports betting in New York.

Assembly Racing Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow (D-Mount Vernon) said he is considering treading the same path as New Jersey and introduce a legislation that would allow residents in the state to take sports bets, Democrat & Chronicle reported.

A confessed “believer in legalizing sports betting,” Pretlow said his bill’s goal is to “pressure the Congress” into changing the existing sports betting laws.

“I’m considering this year putting in legislation similar to New Jersey’s legislation and hopefully it gets to court in the Second Circuit, and hopefully we get a different opinion,” Pretlow said, according to the report.