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Negotiators from both chambers met Wednesday to try to thrash a compromise out on their diametrically opposed positions before the May 5 deadline.



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Negotiators from both chambers met Wednesday to try to thrash a compromise out on their diametrically opposed positions before the May 5 deadline. Both bills seek to bring an end to compact that is protracted involving the state and the Seminole tribe, which owns the Hard Rock Resort brand name and operates seven casinos in Florida.

Your house has proposed offering the tribe nothing new in exchange for payments to the state totaling $3 billion throughout the next seven years. The Senate bill is a wide-ranging gambling expansion package that would charge the Seminoles similar fee over the same timeline but also for the straight to offer craps and roulette, as well as the blackjack games permitted under the terms of this previous lightweight.

Meanwhile, the straight to offer blackjack would expand to parimutuel venues, while slots would be allowed in certain states.

Huge House Compromise

But it seems that the home ended up being the first to ever blink on Wednesday, setting forth several compromise proposals, including one that would allow one new casino in Miami-Dade and grant the Seminoles additional exclusivity on craps and roulette at their seven existing casinos..

Also in the table had been a proposal that allows a cut within the slot machine tax for Seminoles and pari-mutuels if they, in turn, agree to cut the number of slot machines.

They are some pretty concessions that are big due to the fact the House originally Continue reading “Negotiators from both chambers met Wednesday to try to thrash a compromise out on their diametrically opposed positions before the May 5 deadline.”