{"id":2112,"date":"2025-10-15T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:32:05","slug":"update-on-pennsylvania-skill-games-and-budget-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2112\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Pennsylvania Skill Games And Budget | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>House Gaming Oversight Committee Chairman Pat Harkins provides an update on the budget and whether to regulate skill games or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania state budget is now over 100 days overdue and both Democrats and Republicans still cannot find common ground on many issues, including skill games.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Pat Harkins is the Pennsylvania House Gaming Oversight Committee Chairman and has seen an increasing amount of skill games throughout his district in the city of Erie.<\/p>\n<p>Along with no regulation on the games, there is also little to no security stopping those who shouldn&#8217;t be playing from participating.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a pending court decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court about the legality of the games that may have an impact on the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; House Gaming Oversight Committee Chairman Pat Harkins provides an update on the budget and whether to regulate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1981,1980,28,30,29,1979,1978],"class_list":{"0":"post-2112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-gaming-oversight-committee","9":"tag-pat-harkins","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-skill-games","14":"tag-state-budget"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}