A bill that would have authorized a casino on Hawaii’s Home Lands in Oahu has died in the Hawaiian legislature.
It was deferred “indefinitely” February 18 in the Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee without a vote or discussion. The bill had been extensively rewritten from the original proposal and would have given the Home Lands Commission five years to study gaming and whether it might be a viable source of income for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to help it settle 28,000 native Hawaiians.
The bill, original proposed by DHHL had left open the options of a casino, lottery, bingo or horse racing as possible revenue sources.
