Southeast Kansas legislators hoping to bring a state-owned casino to their area will attempt once again to pass a bill made to produce it happen.
But their measure would kill off any possibility of slot machines at dog and horse racing tracks.
The gambling bill is on the Senate’s agenda Tuesday. Southeast Kansas legislators have attempted repeatedly inside the previous to revise a 2007 gambling law.
The law requires developers of state casinos to invest at least $225 million in a southeast Kansas casino, and backers of such a project say the threshold is too higher. The bill would drop it to $50 million.
Past proposals also have addressed track owners’ complaints that the law does not make slots lucrative sufficient for them. This year’s bill repeals the authorization for slots.
