ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland House of Delegates committee voted 13-7 on Monday night to expand gambling in the state to allow table games such as blackjack and a Washington-area casino, setting up a vote by the full House on Tuesday.

The vote came after the panel changed the measure to lower the amount of taxes that two casinos — an existing one in Anne Arundel County and a planned complex in Baltimore — would have to pay. The move is aimed at offsetting the economic impact of competition from a future new casino near the nation’s capital.

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