A proposal unveiled by General Assembly Democrats would give Maryland voters the opportunity to guarantee that state proceeds from casino gambling benefit public education.
“Everywhere we go people say to us, ‘what about the promises you made about gambling revenues going to education?’” Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s time to keep faith with the people.”
Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) support a measure, still being drafted, that would place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The measure, if approved by voters, would mandate that the roughly $500 million that the state receives in casino revenue each year go to education, on top of the funding already mandated by law.
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