Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Group seeks more money to treat problem gamblers

CARSON CITY — The number of slot machines has been declining in Nevada, and that has hurt a fund to provide treatment of problem gamblers.

Anthony Cabot, representing the Commission on Problem Gambling, asked the Senate Finance Committee today to approve Senate Bill 120, which would result in $2.8 million a year to support the program. It now gets $1.2 million.

As originally established, the program received $2 of the tax on each slot machine. But the number of slots has decreased in the last decade. The commission wants a bigger slice of the money collected by the state on slot machines.

The bill has the support of major gaming groups, such as the Nevada Resort Association.

The committee did not take any action on the bill.