With a special legislative session underway in the Senate, inside the Budget and Taxation Committee, which voted 11-1 on Thursday to allow a bill to be sent to the Senate floor. If the Senate votes to pass the bill, then the bill will be sent to the house. They are at the house, the bill is expecting to face a very uphill battle, with much controversy surrounding the legislation. The House has grown a reputation for not passing gambling legislative bills, and this one appears to be heading in the same direction.
According to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Junior, the bill session will likely be wrapping up sometime on Tuesday, at the earliest, with the latest being sometime next week. A of organizations have Artie come out against the bill, and are expected to spend thousands of dollars rallying voters against the gambling bill.
One worry among proponents of the bill, is that other controversial issues, such as marriage equality, which could be on the same ballot, will turn out a horde of voters who were coming out particularly to vote no on pills that they do not agree with.
A number of internet or online related gambling bills have been put forward recently, all of which have garnered significant controversy.
With gambling, and more specifically Internet gambling, seeing increased attention over the course of the last few months, the masses are likely to be bitterly divided on the subject. In recent years, a number of Internet websites were shut down for allowing users to gamble online, playing games such as poker and other games additionally reserved for casinos. After these establishments were shut down, it appears that states are looking to pick up with these establishments left off, by offering gambling to individuals within their state, on the Internet.