A gambling measure aimed at creating a new agreement with Florida’s Seminole Tribe has sailed through a state House committee.

Voting 11-7, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the measure that Rep. Mike La Rosa sponsored, which basically keeps the current gambling status quo in the state.

Under La Rosa’s HB 7037, tribes will be allowed to continue to have exclusive rights to operate “banked” card games, such as blackjack, at five of its casinos. In exchange, the Seminoles would have to guarantee $3 billion in payments to the state — earmarked mainly for education — over seven years.

La Rosa called his proposal a “straightforward bill” that provides certainty for the state’s gambling industry which “has been in disarray for the past few years.”