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February 7, 2008

House panel heads to Newport to hear gambling bills

NEWPORT -- The House Finance Committee decamps to the City by the Sea today to hold hearings on bills dealing with proposed 24-hour gambling at Newport Grand and Twin River in Lincoln.

The committee is scheduled to meet in Newport's Colony House at 4 p.m.

On the agenda are two bills dealing with gambling. One is House bill 7040, which would require that video lottery games are running 24 hours a day at Newport Grand and Twin River, with revenue from the additional hours going to the state's general fund.

The other bill, House 7161, would mandate approval from voters in host communties and from the state's electors if video lottery game expansion is sought between 1 and 8 a.m.

Read more about the proposals in today's Journal story.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 12:29 PM | Permalink

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