The National Indian Gaming Commission is moving forward with plans to write definitions and technical standards for Class II gaming.
The agency wants to draw a brighter line between Class II games like bingo and Class III slot machines.
But tribes objected to the first draft of the proposal regulations.
The Tribal Advisory Commission has been busy writing a new proposal. Jamie Hummingbird, the director of gaming for the Cherokee Nation, says a new submission is being made this month.
“We’re working with NIGC to make changes as minimal as possible,” Hummingbird told The Muskogee Phoenix.
NIGC wants the machines to look less like slot machines, to play slower and to display a bingo card, tribal officials said.
“I think the players are really not even going to notice — internal workings will be different — but they won’t be that noticeable," Ferrell Kaaihue, manager of Creek Nation Muscogee Casino, told the paper.
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