The New Mexico Senate voted, 35-7, to approve a proposal that would create a new gambling compact that would replace the one that’s set to expire at the end of June 2015, allowing Native American tribes in the state to continue with their gambling operations.

If a new compact won’t put in place at that time, casinos belonging to the Navajo Nation, the Corilla and Mescal Apache tribes and Coma Pueblo would be forced to close down.

Now that the proposed compact is moving at a steady pace, it at least validates the time spent by the office of Gov. Susana Martinez to get an agreement in order that would appease the state and the tribes involved. The most important thing, according to supporters of the new compact, was to have an agreement in place that would bring some semblance of stability to the state’s gambling industry in order to increase state revenue and protect the employment of residents working in these casinos.

Despite getting approval in the senate, some legislators continued to express their concerns about possible legal liabilities in the new compact while others kept their opinions that gambling in the state should’t be allowed to begin with.