HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today accepted the resignation of the agency’s first Executive Director, Anne LaCour Neeb. Neeb’s resignation is effective on June 6, 2008.

On an interim basis, the PGCB announced that Frank T. Donaghue, currently the Board’s Chief Counsel, will serve as Acting Executive Director while it conducts a nation-wide search for a new Executive Director.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board this week approved a resolution which supports efforts to invest in horse health and welfare.

Commissioner Gary Sojka introduced the resolution and encouraged its passage as a way of showing the Board’s support for equine health as a result of recent high-profile catastrophic injuries to thoroughbred racehorses.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Director of Gaming Laboratory Operations, Michael Cruz, will address attendees of the 6th Annual Gaming Technology Summit during a roundtable session called “Server-Based Games.”

The Gaming Technology Summit is the gaming industry’s premier technology conference that brings together gaming regulators, operators and vendors. The summit focuses on the current state of server-based games, likely rollout schedules for these cutting-edge types of games, and the impact they will have on operations and customers.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Director of Operations today announced that current slots casino projects scheduled to be operational by July 2009 could result in a 40% increase in revenues and create nearly 3,000 more jobs.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today unanimously approved regulations governing manufacturers of gaming equipment and general administration. Separately, the Board agreed to publish application forms for equipment manufacturers within a week and to accept an initial phase of equipment-manufacturer applications for consideration through Aug. 15, 2005.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved for public comment an amendment to its regulations that will increase the public visibility of the licensing process while honoring the confidentiality provisions of the Gaming Act.

The amendment, the second of a package of regulatory updates adopted by the Board, adds two new provisions to existing procedures for slot license hearings. These provisions, which will be posted on the Board web site for 30-day public comment after approval by the Pennsylvania Attorney General, will:

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today announced a schedule of Public Input Hearings for a Category 1 slots casino at a horse race track in Lawrence County and three applicants for two available Category 3 slots casino licenses at existing resorts.

Under the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, these Public Input Hearings must be held in the municipality where the facility will be located and organized in cooperation with the municipality. The schedule is as follows:

Category 1 Slot Machine License

HARRISBURG: Nanette Horner, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board's Director of Compulsive and Problem Gambling, has been appointed to the Responsible Gaming Committee for the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL).

Horner, who joined the Board's Office of Chief Counsel in 2005, was named the first Director of the Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling in September, 2006.

Gaming Control Board Chairman Mary DiGiacomo Colins says Nan Horner's participation in this important committee falls in lockstep with a chief goal of this agency.

HARRISBURG: Susan Hensel, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Director of Licensing, has been appointed Executive Secretary of the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). The two-year appointment was made by IAGR Chair Dennis Neilander, the current Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Hensel replaces Alicia Gibson of South Africa.

Neilander stated that he wished to thank Susan for accepting the position as Executive Secretary and the state of Pennsylvania for allowing her to fill this important and demanding position.

HARRISBURG: During "Problem Gambling Awareness Week" March 9th through 15th, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board encourages anyone who thinks they may have a gambling problem to seek help and consider taking advantage of the voluntary Self-Exclusion Program. This program permits an individual to voluntarily request to be excluded from all gaming activities at all licensed slot machine facilities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for one year, five years or a lifetime.