MEADOWLANDS — The New Jersey state legislature may evaluate the value of building a casino at the Meadowlands should a resolution pass that would establish a Casino Gaming Study Commission, according to news reports. Assemblyman Vincent Prieto of Secaucus is among the sponsors of the bill, along with a number of other Democrats including the main sponsor Assemblyman Ralph R. Caputo and Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver, Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli, Assemblywoman Connie Wagner, and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle.
If the resolution is approved by the Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming Committee, it then would have to be approved by the full Assembly and full Senate, and finally signed by Gov. Chris Christie. Past efforts to pass gaming resolutions have failed.
Casino gaming has been limited to Atlantic City since the state constitution was amended in 1976.