2004 Senate Resolution 308

Revoke Gun Lake Band casino compact

Offered in the Senate

Dec. 8, 2004

Offered by Sen. Ken Sikkema (R-28)

To revoke the Michigan Senate's December 12, 2002 endorsement of a tribal-state gaming compact between the state and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan (the Gun Lake Band), and terminating the Senate's prior recommendation that the Governor execute the compact (2002 Senate Resolution 279). Neither Gov. Engler nor Gov. Granholm ever signed the compact after the 2002 Senate vote.

Motion by Sen. Ken Sikkema (R-28)

To end debate and hold an immediate vote on the resolution. The vote to approve this anti-casino resolution was by voice vote with no roll call taken, but this vote serves as a "proxy" for how Senators probably would have voted if the final passage vote had been tallied.

The motion passed 24 to 13 (details)

Adopted in the Senate by voice vote