DBEDT outlines draft framework and IO model to evaluate gambling options for the Legislature

May 22, 2026

Oscar Carvalho of DBEDT presented a halfway-draft report structure required by SCR 121, describing benchmarking, legislative-model review, feasibility, a comprehensive policy framework and an input-output model to estimate incremental demand, taxes, leakages and social costs.

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Oscar Carvalho, an economist at the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, presented a draft structure the department will use to prepare the working-group report to the Legislature under SCR 121.

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