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Senate votes 6-2 to disapprove governor's order moving casino oversight to Lottery Commission
Summary
The Senate on July 11 adopted Senate Resolution 24-06 to disapprove Executive Order 2025-002, which would have transferred supervision of casino gaming from the Commonwealth Casino Commission to the Commonwealth Lottery Commission; the motion passed 6-2.
The Senate on July 11 adopted Senate Resolution 24-06 to disapprove Executive Order 2025-002, a governorissued order that attempted to transfer supervisory authority over casino gaming from the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) to the Commonwealth Lottery Commission. The motion passed by voice/roll-call vote with six senators in favor and two opposed.
The resolution and the committee report that led to it focused on legal and policy problems with the executive order. The gaming committeechair, Senator Magoffna, told the full Senate the order "not only transfers the duties and responsibilities of the casino commission to the lottery commission, but it terminated for cause the existing casino commission commissioners and replace[d] them with the lottery commission commissioners who do not qualify as commissioners under 4 CMC section 23-13." The committee said the EO conflicts with…
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