Florida’s new senate president says he’ll push for a fresh gaming compact with the state’s Seminole Tribe in the upcoming legislative session.

Speaking to reporters moments after he was sworn in as Florida’s new senate president on Tuesday, Joe Negron (pictured) said he was optimistic that the senate could work with its colleagues in the House of Representatives to ratify a new compact with the Seminoles, one that is “hopefully long term enough so that the state has predictability in revenue and that’s also fair to pari-mutuels.”

The Seminoles agreed to a 20-year compact in 2010 which included five years of exclusivity over house-banked table games at their seven casinos. But the state later authorized pari-mutuel operators to offer so-called ‘designated player’ card games, which the Seminoles believed were house-banked games in everything but name, and lawsuits began flying.

In 2015, Gov. Rick Scott reached agreement with the tribe on a new compact but the legislature failed to bring their gambling bill up for a vote before the end of the session, in part because competing gaming interests stuffed the bill with goodies, including authorizing slots operations in five additional counties.