{"id":278284,"date":"2026-09-03T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:58:11","slug":"skill-games-soon-could-be-illegal-in-pa-new-proposal-to-regulate-them-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278284\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill Games Soon Could Be Illegal In PA, New Proposal To Regulate Them Offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond said his bill package establishes a defined formula to maximize property tax relief, provide reliable annual funding for the Race Horse Development Trust Fund, nearly double support for compulsive and problem gambling treatment, and maintain a dependable revenue stream for the state\u2019s General Fund.<\/p>\n<p>A competing skill games bill exists in the state senate, where senators Gene Law of Bradford County and Anthony Williams of Philadelphia have introduced a measure that would implement a$500-per-skill game machine monthly fee. <\/p>\n<p>Yaw and Williams project that would generate approximately $300 million annually, with nearly half of the money going to public transportation and infrastructure costs. Some money also would go to the state Clean Streams Fund. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diamond said his bill package establishes a defined formula to maximize property tax relief, provide reliable annual funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-278284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278284","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=278284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}