Top Republicans are pressing sweeping gambling legislation that would allow Pennsylvania slot machines like terminals in thousands of bars, restaurants, nonprofit social clubs and other businesses that hold liquor licenses.
The legislation could deliver new gambling tax dollars to a state treasury hurting from stay-at-home and shutdown orders issued by Governor Tom Wolf to fight the spread of the Coronavirus.
It also seeks to banish thousands of unregulated cash-paying skill game terminals from a wide array of establishments in Pennsylvania, including laundromats, pizza parlors, grocery stores, corner stores and bowling alleys, that do not have liquor licenses.
No Senate vote had been scheduled yet as Senate Republican leaders worked to build enough support for it to pass.
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