Heading into the final stretch of this year’s legislative session, House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday there is appetite among lawmakers to “take a look at” legalizing casinos in the state.

The only casinos currently allowed to operate in North Carolina are on tribal lands in the western part of the state.

With Virginia opening the door to four casinos across the state line, however, including a Caesars casino resort in Danville, just an hour-and-a-half from Raleigh, both top leaders of North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature are expressing a willingness to consider whether the state should allow more casinos to be built.