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GAMING / TRIBES & PUBLIC POLICY - 2003-10-21
Proposition 202 was on the 2002 ballot. It was one of three gaming propositions on the ballot and the only one agreed to by voters — 610,900 to 590,000.

Commonly called the “17 tribe” measure, it amended state law to require the governor to sign 10-year renewable tribal-state gaming compacts with any tribe that requests one and install in statute a new standard form of tribal-state gaming compact that enhanced gaming to include poker and black jack.
Read the full story at Arizona Capitol Times
 
Audit urges video-lottery addition - 2003-10-21
After years of decrease in profits, Florida's pari-mutuel industry should consider expanding gaming to include a video lottery, according to a state audit released Monday.

The 2003 Legislature passed a measure allowing bigger stakes in poker games allowed at dog tracks and jai alai frontons, but they didn't approve video-lottery terminals, which auditors noted could increase tax collections in Florida between $600 million and $2 billion annually.
Read the full story at South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 





 


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