Senators seek more time to revive Pennsylvania casino tax law

Pennsylvania’s casino law revival, which has been declared unconstitutional last year, is living on borrowed time – literally.

With their time almost already up, senate leaders are crossing their fingers that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will give them 120 days more to revive a now-invalid law that required casinos to pay more than $140 million to local governments.

The Associated Press reported that the legislators has filed a nine-page petition to persuade the SC magistrates to give them more time to fix the portion of Pennsylvania’s casino law.

In its ruling, the state’s high court struck down the municipal portion of the local share tax that most casinos pay on their slot machine earnings. It also ruled that the “local share assessment” was unconstitutional because it treated the state’s 12 casinos unequally.