Due to a Supreme Court ruling in late September of 2016, the General Assembly has to come up with a fix for the local share assessment that casinos pay to their host municipality and county. When the language on the “host fee” was struck down by the Court, the General Assembly was given 120 days to come up with a new structure; that date, January 26th, came without a plan due to an appeal by members of the Senate to the Court which again granted an extension, which is to arrive this Friday.
According to one news article, there may be some quick movement on the plan this week, but there was even a mention of not getting it done and making language retroactive. One member opined that a fix might not come until late June.
