A vote on a two-year budget is expected in both the Indiana House and Senate sometime today, but if not the racetracks and casinos would likely have to close since the state wouldn’t having funding to pay gaming workers. “Those would not operate because you would not have the state gaming officials that are needed on site to oversee operations,” Jane Jankowski, press secretary for Gov. Mitch Daniels, was quoted as saying. “That would include almost all of the 30,000 state employees who would be on furlough as well. If we don’t have a state budget, the state doesn’t have the ability to spend.”
Without a budget agreement, only state workers involved in emergency services, public safety and prisons would continue working as essential state personnel.
The possible closing comes on the eve of the Fourth of July weekend in which
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