The Alabama Policy Institute (API) released a report outlining concerns about the gaming bills passed by the Alabama House of Representatives last week.
The two bills include the enabling legislation, House Bill 152 (HB152) and the constitutional amendment, House Bill 151 (HB151), allowing people to vote on gaming in Alabama, including casinos, a lottery, and sports betting.
“The language proposed in the constitutional amendment (CA) is vague and intentionally positive,” the API report states. “It is not a representation of the foils of this proposal and is meant to mislead the public into voting for something they might not support otherwise.”
Among concerns on the CA bill, the API said it doesn’t define “casino-style gambling,” it allows the locations of the casinos to be changed without a vote of the people, and it could lead to the legislature increasing or decreasing the rate of taxation without a vote of the people.
