It was no shock to many that the Kansas Senate killed Bill 587 last week but many are saying it died for all the wrong reasons.
The bill would have established the nations first State owned Casinos, which would have been managed by several new and old state boards and agencies. Besides the questionable ethic problems that could pop up from the state operating and regulating its own gambling establishments. All the income and records would have been closed to public review.
There were almost another 100 pages of reasons for not wanting to set such a precedent but this is not what caused the bill to fail. Instead it was a group of anti gambling senators who refused to move there ground that killed SB 587. It has also rejected every gambling proposal for the last 13 years, but this time they have made the right decision, even if it was for the wrong reasons.
The state may decide to go ahead with suggested agreements with the Kansas Native American tribes to set up casinos in urban areas. Most people think this is a pointless proposal. Feeling it will me killed just as other bills have been.
Kansas may try to push ahead and try to expand the states bingo industry with class 2 slot machines set up with the mathematical formulae based solely on the odds of bingo. The Iowa lottery set up a program similar to this, but stopped this after they felt growth of the slot machine clones became out of control.