GAMBLING

Articles and editorials

More Businesses May Pull Plug on Welfare Cash Cards, H318 [1FE]

Bills and resolutions

Native Americans: provide for community approval before Indian class III gaming opportunities may take effect (see H.R. 4033), H801 [15FE]

——— repeal law prohibiting gaming activities, otherwise prohibited in Texas, on Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas lands (see S. 3654), S7401 [4DE]

New Jersey: exclude from prohibition on professional and amateur sports gambling to the extent approved by the State legislature (see H.R. 3809), H114 [23JA]

Sports: permit States to grant exemptions from certain laws for lotteries, sweepstakes, and other betting, gambling, or wagering schemes involving professional and amateur sports (see H.R. 3797), H113 [23JA]

Letters

Welfare Integrity Now (WIN) for Children and Families Act: Tom Hansen and Barbara W. Ballard, National Conference of State Legislatures, H318 [1FE]

——— Tracy L. Wareing, American Public Human Services Association, and Paul Lefkowitz, National Association of State TANF Administrators, H318 [1FE]

Remarks in House

Arizona: prohibit certain gaming activities on certain Indian lands (H.R. 2938), H3725–H3729 [18JN]

Michigan: anniversary of lottery, E1913 [12DE]

Public welfare programs: require States to implement policies to prevent assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program from being used in strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores (H.R. 3567), H226, H315–H322 [1FE], E152 [7FE]

Remarks in Senate

Las Vegas, NV: recognize importance of the hotel, gaming, and convention industries on economy of the city, S2462 [18AP]

——— tribute to National Handicapping Championship, S123 [26JA]

Reports filed

Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 2938) (H. Rept. 112–440), H1844 [16AP]

Texts of

H.R. 2938, Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act, H3725 [18JN]

H.R. 3567, Welfare Integrity Now (WIN) for Children and Families Act, H315 [1FE]

S. 3654, repeal law prohibiting gaming activities, otherwise prohibited in Texas, on Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas lands, S7403 [4DE]