BOSTON -- Massachusetts House speaker Robert DeLeo is reigniting the gambling debate in the Bay State, releasing his plans for casinos and slots.

DeLeo has some different ideas from Gov. Deval Patrick. Speaking before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, DeLeo outlined details of his proposal to bring expanded gambling, jobs and revenue to the state.

"Gaming is not the panacea, but it is a plan. It is a plan that creates a new economic sector and new jobs in Massachusetts when we need them most," he said.

DeLeo wouldn't say how many jobs might be created. The legislation he plans to file by the end of this month calls for two resorts casinos and adding slot machines to existing race tracks.

In addition to the jobs created in those venues, he said he would want some of the revenues to be earmarked to stimulate blue collar industries.

"A portion of the licensing fees would go toward helping manufacturers. Massachusetts manufacturers," he said.

He said he wasn't sure where casinos would be located.

"I'm not sure the legislature would really get involved in terms of siting the facilities. We'll talk about, in terms of the numbers, the need for two facilities," DeLeo said.

Patrick has campaigned for expanded gambling but where the two men differ appears to be on the issue of slot machines.

"Well I haven't see the (DeLeo) bill. You know that I believe and have proposed a limited number of destination resort casinos, because I think that's where the jobs are. I am not persuaded that we get jobs from slots at the tracks," Patrick said.

DeLeo said putting slots at the tracks will save jobs and he feels the social costs of joblessness outweigh the social costs of gambling.

Massachusetts already allows gambling through its lottery games and live racing. But lottery revenues -- whose proceeds are a vital source of cash for cities and towns -- have fallen amid the recession. The state's two horse-racing and two former greyhound tracks, both of which now offer only simulcast racing following a ban on dog racing, also have suffered.

In 2007, Patrick proposed building three resort-style casinos across the state to create jobs, add tax revenue and capture some of the money Massachusetts gamblers were spending at slot parlors and casinos in neighboring Rhode Island and Connecticut. Then-House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi opposed the plan, and it failed in the House by a vote of 106-48 in March 2008.

DiMasi resigned last year amid an ethics probe, and DeLeo has signaled his support for revisiting the issue.

Senate President Therese Murray, in her own appearance before the Chamber last year, mimicked pulling a slot-machine arm and said, "Ka-Ching!" when asked for her thoughts on expanded gaming in the state.

Despite his opposition to slot parlors, the governor has expressely not threatened a veto over that provision.

The issue is personal to DeLeo, though. There are two in the Winthop Democrat's district: Suffolk Downs in Boston, which continues to offer live horse racing, and Wonderland in Revere, which offers only simulcast races after a dog-racing ban forced it to stop live greyhound races as of Jan. 1.

He told the chamber that putting a limited number of slots at venues that already have wagering will provide "a more immediate form of revenue." He said he was trying to determine the appropriate number to support the tracks while not dampening a gambling company's interest in building a casino.

And he said building two casinos -- not the three proposed by Patrick -- would avoid diluting their impact and "dooming them from the start." He later told reporters he would not play a role in their siting, even though Suffolk Downs is in his district and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino favors a license for it.

While DeLeo pledged to file the bill this month, the immediate affect of any legislation is in doubt. The state would have to establish and staff a new gambling commission, and overhaul its criminal and financial-reporting statutes, before additional gambling sites are created.

The current Massachusetts fiscal year ends June 30, and the next begins July 1. Administration and legislative financial experts have been wary of factoring any gambling revenues into their budget proposals before the end of the next fiscal year on June 30, 2011.