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    "id": 933143,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Machakos Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Victor Munyaka",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Victor Kioko Munyaka",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Gaming Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. By way of introduction, this is a Committee-sponsored Bill. It is by the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism. It was published on 27th May 2019 and read the First Time in this House on 11th June 2019. Thereafter, it was committed to the Committee for consideration, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.127. The Gaming Bill, 2019 seeks to repeal the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act Cap 131 of 1966, by providing for control and licensing of betting, casinos and other forms of gambling, authorisation of price competition and public lotteries; establishment of the National Lottery, the imposition and recovery of tax on betting and other forms of gaming, among other things. The Gaming Bill seeks to repeal the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act Cap 131, an Act of Parliament that has been in existence since 1966. The Bill further seeks to address various inadequacies in the existing Act. Allow me to highlight a few key distinctions between the Bill and the existing Act. It addresses devolution and in particular the role of county governments as provided under Part II of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, which also assigns the county governments a function on betting, casinos and other forms of gambling. The Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act do not address devolution."
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