Florida State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed a bill on Thursday pushing for a gambling expansion ahead of the upcoming 2024 legislative session.
Igoglia filed the SB 1054: Pari-mutuel Permitholders, records show. The Republican lawmaker represents District 11, Citrus, Hernando, and Sumter counties, and a northern area of Pasco County.
The bill aims to delete “a requirement that certain permitholders show that their permits have not been disapproved or recalled at a later election when submitting subsequent annual applications to the Florida Gaming Control Commission,” a five-member regulatory body.
Gov. Ron DeSantis reappointed Julie Imanuel Brown, an attorney, as the FGCC commissioner, on May 6. The other four gambling regulators are John D’Aquila, an accountant; Charles Drago, a retired police chief; Tina Repp, a retired FBI agent; and Louis Trombetta, an attorney and gambling law expert.
The bill that Ingoglia filed also aims to authorize “greyhound dog racing permitholders to relocate if specified conditions are met.” Nearly 70% of voters in the November 2018 election favored amending the state constitution to ban dog racing in 2020