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April 30, 2008

Alert: Senate sends gambling hours bill on to governor

PROVIDENCE -- The state Senate late this afternoon approved the House-passed version of legislation to allow 24-hour gambling on weekends and holidays at Rhode Island's video-slot emporiums: Twin River in Lincoln and Newport Grand.

The bill cleared the Senate in a 29-to-6 vote.

The approval was expected and marks the final legislative vote. The bill will go to the governor.

Governor Carcieri said at an impromptu new conference earlier today that he will "most likely" veto the bill, which won House approval last night.

(The House and Senate each passed their versions of 24-hour gambling yesterday. As is customary at the State House, Senate members had to approve the House version of the bill, and vice versa, if one or both is to become law).

Read coverage of the gambling-hours expansion debate and vote in the House last night.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Katherine Gregg of the Journal State House Bureau

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 4:56 PM | Permalink

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