The General Assembly war over skill games — those slot machine-like devices that have popped up in the thousands in convenience stores and truck stops across the state, despite the legislature’s effort to ban them in 2020 — will go to a select group of legislator-bargainers seeking some sort of compromise between widely different House of Delegates and state Senate views.
While there are a few more formal steps to go, the Senate General Laws Committee voted 10-5 to convert a House bill (HB590) into a Senate bill that the House previously gutted. That means a conference committee to negotiate some sort of compromise is certain.
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