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Legislative leader wants special session this fall to write rules for Broward slots
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| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jul 27, 2005 09:23am |
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| Media | Newspaper - South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Legislators could return to the Capitol as early as October to write rules for South Florida slot machines, Florida House Speaker Allan Bense said Tuesday.
"I'd be prepared for perhaps a special session in October," Bense told his top deputies in the House during a meeting in Orlando, though he added that November also remains a possibility. "I think it's going to have to happen."
State voters approved a constitutional amendment last fall allowing Broward and Miami-Dade counties to decide whether to allow slots at horse and dog tacks and jai-alai frontons, with the tax revenue generated by the machines going toward schools across the state. Miami voters rejected the idea, but Broward voters approved it.
The amendment gave the Legislature until July 1 to establish rules to govern slots, but legislators adjourned their session this spring without doing so. And last month, a Broward County judge ruled that county commissioners there could set the rules themselves.
That has made slots a more urgent issue for state legislators. |
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