Florida’s HB 189, a sweeping proposal that would have altered the regulation of slot machines in fraternal organizations and modified the language used to combat offshore and sweepstakes casinos, faltered as the Florida legislative session ended last Friday.
The bill was one of four involving gambling regulation this session that failed. Another that will revise current law to categorize illegal gambling houses as public nuisances passed both chambers.
HB 189, sponsored by Fort Pierce Republican Dana Trabulsy, advanced through three committee hearings, but ran out of time as legislators grappled with how the bill would alter the regulation of “amusement” slot machines in the state.
