Enforcement ban for Alcoholic Beverage Control gets veto [View all]

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would bar Alcoholic Beverage Control and its enforcement division from enforcing laws relating to gaming devices or gambling devices under state law.

Senate Bill 496 by Sen. Scott Flippo, R-Mountain Home, cleared the 35-member chamber in a 24-5 vote on March 15 and the 100-member state House in a 53-22 vote on March 28.

Flippo told senators last month that his bill is aimed at helping places such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Elks Clubs, that it wouldn't expand gambling and would, instead, make local law enforcement officers and prosecutors responsible for enforcing state laws relating to gambling devices.

But Sen. David Sanders, R-Little Rock, who voted against the bill, said the state's problems with gambling devices go beyond such establishments.

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