On Wednesday, the House initially approved both proposals, but neither received the two-thirds majority that proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution need to make it out of the chamber. And Friday is the deadline for the House to give final passage to its bills, meaning the casino legislation is running into a time crunch. Dan Patrick has repeatedly said there is not enough support. Regardless, both proposals face long odds in the Senate, where Lt. The final consideration of that proposal was delayed until 10 p.m. Another, more ambitious piece of legislation, House Joint Resolution 155, would let voters decide whether to legalize casinos in Texas. It is one of two proposals to expand gambling that have headlined the past two days in the lower chamber. A subsequent verification of the vote, which took several minutes as the clerk ticked through every member, produced 101 votes in favor of House Joint Resolution 102. The proposal needed 100 votes to pass and got exactly that when the roll was first called. In dramatic fashion, the Texas House on Thursday gave final approval to legislation that would let voters decide whether to legalize online sports betting across the state. Eye on Politics: Casino gambling and sports betting in Texas, State of the Union reaction 28:32

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