An initiative to expand casino gaming in North Jersey may have been dead and gone but the people of Atlantic City believes that it is only a matter of time before it rises from the grave.

The Press of Atlantic City reported several New Jersey lawmakers are trying to revive the proposal of casino expansion near New York City, almost two years after the electorate overwhelmingly rejected the idea.

Several bills aimed at expanding casino gaming in North Jersey have been quietly filed at the start of the 2018-19 legislative session while everyone is busy waiting for the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision on the federal ban on sports betting, according to Trenton’s Bad Bet Executive Director Bill Cortese.

Cortese zeroed in on Assemblyman Ralph Caputo’s ACR32 measure, which may pave the way for the amendment of the state constitution to accommodate casino gambling in the northern parts of New Jersey.