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Gambling-expansion and tax bills both die
Friday, February 8, 2002
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES
OLYMPIA -- Both a sweeping expansion of gambling in Washington state and Gov. Gary Locke's proposal for a state tax on mini-casinos died yesterday in a Senate committee, the chairwoman said.
Locke had proposed a 10 percent tax on non-tribal gambling as a way to pump about $75 million into the billion-dollar hole in the state's operating budget.
The Recreational Gaming Association, the group that represents non-tribal gambling interests, argued that the tax would drive its members out of business. The association countered with a proposal that would have allowed mini-casinos to expand from poker and blackjack into casino games now allowed only at Indian casinos, including electronic machines that strongly resemble slot machines. In return, the state would get about $100 million in new tax revenue.
Margarita Prentice, chairwoman of the Senate Labor, Commerce and Financial Institutions Committee, had pronounced Locke's bill all but dead more than a week ago. Yesterday, she didn't even bring the gaming association's proposal up for a vote. Today is a legislative deadline for moving bills out of committee.
"We did not have the votes," said Prentice, D-Seattle, who said the committee balked at expanding gambling.
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