Second Attempt at Slot Machines

Governor Steve Beshear is consistently in the news these days because of his attempts to get various online gambling sites’ domain names under Kentucky control. Beshear is attempting to limit the amount of outside slot machine gambling that has been going on, so that he can keep the much needed revenue in the state. He has been very clear that he doesn’t really care what the online gambling community thinks about him, he just wants to take care of his residents and his state.

Last year he tried to get a bill passed that would allow them to bring in slot machine casinos to twelve different locations, including several tracks. The bill went into committee where they decided to rewrite it. They rewrote the bill and made it nine locations and then sent it on to another committee. By the time all was said and done, the bill had visited all their committees and yet still was not approved.

The bill died before it had a chance to get voted on by a full House. Now, House Speaker Greg Stumbo is trying to get his own version of the slot machine bill passed. He is coming at it from a different way though. He wants lottery terminals just like slot machines to come to the tracks, and he is trying to do it during the short meeting of the assembly next month.

He has already submitted his slot machine proposal and hopes that when the House reconvenes on February 3rd that they will have a chance to review it before their session ends. He says that if he doesn’t have at least sixty votes he won’t call for a vote, but he is hoping that he will.

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