Bingo: House Refuses to Consider Bingo Bill

The Alabama House has refused to consider a bill to legalize electronic bingo at greyhound tracks in Mobile and Birmingham. Tax revenue from the bingo games would have gone to help fund the state's cash-strapped medicaid agency.

The bingo bill's sponsor, Representative Marcel Black, is upset the proposal won't be considered. "I'm disappointed. There's been a lot of hard work put into this bingo bill. I think a lot of distortions and half truths from the persons that were opposed to the bingo bill and that's always disappointing that members really make up their minds on issues like this before they ever read the bingo bill and even some of the major newspapers in the state wrote editorials opposing the bingo bill before I ever introduced it and that's again is disappointing as well," says Representative Black.

Today's vote does not mean the bill is dead. Representative Black says he's considering bringing it up before the session is over.

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