Montgomery, Alabama
The Alabama House of Representatives advanced a compromise on gambling legislation to authorize a state lottery and allow slot machines at seven locations in the state, but the measure stalled late Tuesday amid opposition in the Alabama Senate.
A conference committee — appointed to negotiate differences between House and Senate versions of the bill — on Tuesday proposed a compromise that would authorize a state lottery and allow “electronic games of chance” including slot machines and video poker, but not table games, at seven locations. The seven locations would be the dog tracks in Macon, Jefferson, Greene and Mobile counties, plus existing bingo halls in Lowndes, Houston and Greene counties.
However, the measure stalled in the Alabama Senate, where it needs 21 votes. Senators voted 20-15 for a motion to concur in the conference committee, and Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth announced that the conference committee failed. Senators then voted to carry over the bill for the evening. Harris said he had seen the situation one other time in his decades working with the Alabama LegislatureSeveral legislators said their constituents often drive across state lines to play the lotteries in neighboring states and want to have a lottery at home.
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