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Gambling industry resists electronic monitoring; age-change bill passes Senate, faces House hearing
Summary
Commentators on a Missoula radio program discussed industry opposition to a proposed statewide electronic monitoring network for gaming machines and reported that an age-change bill raising the gambling age from 18 to 21 had passed the Senate and awaited a House hearing.
Commentators on a Missoula radio program discussed two strands of gambling policy in the current legislative session: an industry effort to block a statewide electronic monitoring network for video poker and keno machines, and a separate bill raising the legal gambling age that had passed the Senate.
The commentator said the gambling industry "turned out in force" to fight an attempt to create a computerized network for thousands of video poker and keno machines. The program said the attorney general had been trying to implement electronic monitoring since the…
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