CAWP Legislative News 6-09

House Meets Briefly, Senate Waits for Action

The Pennsylvania House met briefly in November. The Senate remains in recess, on six-hour call, pending House action on Table Games legislation. Both chambers are expected to return to session in December. Word from several sources indicates that only a small number of issues remain to be agreed upon on the gambling expansion legislation. Passage will allow the final pieces of the budget to be completed, and other issues, which have sat on back burners much of this session to be considered. It remains to be seen what issues the General Assembly chooses to take up this year, and into 2010, when the Governor, the entire House and the even-number Senate seats are up for election.