GOVERNOR Arnold I. Palacios on Tuesday last week approved House Local Bill 23-14, which reduced from 200 to 50 the required number of hotel rooms on Tinian for hotel-casinos that operate internet gambling.
Authored by Rep. Patrick H. San Nicolas, H.L.B. 23-14 is now Tinian Local Law 23-15. It amends the Revised Tinian Casino Gaming Control Act of 1989 or T.L.L. 21-9.
Unanimously passed by the Tinian and Aguigan Legislative Delegation in July, the measure states that “in order to accommodate the change in our current economic situation as a result of the global effect of the pandemic, businesses needed to reassess their structure to remain in operation and allow a chance to recover.”
In the interest of encouraging and fostering tourism and the casino gaming industry on Tinian, T.L.L. 23-15 states that it is necessary to amend Tinian’s gaming law in order to make the island, “more investor friendly” and more competitive in the region.
