Like legislators in other states, some Kansas lawmakers have complained for years that it’s a financial hardship to serve in the Legislature. They have said the current $30,000 in compensation isn’t enough to live on year-round and that being in office makes...
Off the back of this success, you might imagine lawmakers are considering relaxing Kansas’ ban on online casinos. However, there is no talk of legal iGaming currently happening in the legislature. While legal casinos might come at some point in the future, it won’t be any time soon. Kan...
1987 The Kansas Legislature passed the Kansas Parimutuel Racing Act. The Kansas Racing Commission licenses and regulates horse racing, greyhound racing, and pari-mutuel wagering in Kansas. 1995 Four native tribes received permission to build casinos in Kansas under tribal-state compacts. All casinos...
Since the US Supreme Court struck down PASPA in May 2018, the Kansas legislature had been working on legislation governing sports betting. During that same year, Kansas became one of the pioneering states to attempt the introduction of sports betting. ...
The issue of requiring managers of private funds to disclose their ESG activities to clients or to get clients' verbal or written consent to use them appears to be the last major sticking point among Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature. They've already backed off the toughest version ...
The COVID-19 pandemic played a role in the delay, as did bipartisanship, but in 2022 there was a compromise, paving the way for Kansas sports betting to become legalized. In April 2022, Senate Bill 84 passed through the Kansas legislature, sending it to Governor Laura Kelly. ...
Reports that the Kansas Legislature approved a one-year moratorium that prohibits cities from enacting laws to regulate and collect taxes on telecommunications technology being installed in public rights-of-way. Aim of preventing cities from charging excessive fees; Opposition by cities to the ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents pushed a bill through the Kansas Legislature early Friday to require providers to tell patients that a medication abort
So, let’s be real. We are a ship. A big, beautiful…curvy ship that is fast moving towards an iceberg. Let’s be real. Yeah. Be it the Missouri state legislature and be it a second Trump administration. And let’s be real, you know, we’ve done this before. The Missouri state...
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's actions set up a series of confrontations with the Republican-supermajority Legislature over those issues. The measures appeared to have the two-thirds majorities needed in both chambers to override vetoes, but GOP leaders' success depends on how many lawmakers ar...