![]() ![]() "I think we will have 21 and we will pass it," Barron predicted Thursday. The Senate Rules Committee chairman, Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, said he plans for his committee to put the proposed constitutional amendment atop the Senate's work agenda for Tuesday or Thursday. Proponents had hoped to bring the bill to a vote this week, but delayed it because they couldn't get the required super majority - 21 of 35 senators. ![]() The gambling bill pending in the Senate is designed to stop the governor's task force by regulating, taxing and expanding electronic bingo casinos in Alabama. 1 to prevent a raid by the governor's task force. He said business for the Wetumpka casino has boomed since its nearest competitor and the state's largest casino - VictoryLand in Shorter - closed Feb. "They will have a monopoly and we get nothing out of it for the state," said Dixon, who has the Montgomery and Wetumpka casinos in his district. If the legislation fails, he said, the Governor's Task Force on Illegal Gambling will continue trying to shut down non-Indian casinos, and the tribe's casinos in Wetumpka, Montgomery and Atmore will remain open and free of state regulation and taxation. The outcome is likely to be close.īut he said if the measure becomes law, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians gets to add electronic bingo at the Mobile County dog track, where the tribe is the majority owner. Larry Dixon, R-Montgomery, said Thursday he's undecided how he will vote on bingo legislation that is expected to come up next week in the Senate. ![]()
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