The Alabama Senate on Thursday will debate bills that would allow voters to decide whether to have a lottery and a new Alabama Gambling Commission to regulate pari-mutuel gambling at seven locations, the state’s four former greyhound tracks plus three others.

The legislation does not include sports betting and casinos that were in the version that passed the House three weeks ago. It does call for the governor to negotiate a compact with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians that would allow the tribe to offer full casino games at their electronic bingo casinos on tribal lands in Atmore, Wetumpka, and Montgomery.

If the Senate passes the plan it would have to return to the House, which could agree with the changes or send the bills to a conference committee.

Final approval would be up to voters in an election. The bill currently has that set for a special election on Sept. 10.

The pari-mutuel betting could be on live horse and dog races or by simulcast, or historical horse or dog racing on computerized machines. It would be allowed at the greyhound tracks in Birmingham, Mobile, Macon County, and Greene County. It would also be allowed at bingo halls in Lowndes County and Houston County, plus an additional site in Greene County, for a total of up to seven facilities that would be licensed by the Alabama Gambling Commission.

Casino games and electronic bingo would not be allowed at the seven facilities, which would pay a license fee of at least $5 million for 15 years.

The state would collect a tax of 24% to 32% on the gambling. The fiscal note estimates it would raise $99 million to $132 million a year in net state revenue.

The lottery, which could include a state lottery, multi-state lotteries, and scratch-off games, is estimated to raise $305 to $379 million in net state revenue.

It would take a three-fifths vote, 21 of 35 senators, to approve the constitutional amendment that would to to voters.

The House passed its version of the plan by a vote of 70 to 32. That included yes votes from all 28 members of the Democratic minority caucus.

House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, said Wednesday he thought the plan in the Senate would have little or no support in the caucus.

This story will be updated as the debate goes on.