Kansas Statutes 74-8794. Negotiations of sports wagering in new or existing tribal gaming compacts; management of sports wagering by tribe pending approval of compact
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-8794
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Executive director: means the executive director of the Kansas lottery. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
- Interactive sports wagering platform: means an integrated system of hardware, software and applications, including, but not limited to, mobile applications and servers, through which sports wagering may be made available to persons physically located within the state of Kansas at the time of submitting the wager to a sports wagering manager over the internet or wireless services as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
- Kansas lottery: means the state agency created by this act to operate a lottery or lotteries pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
- Lottery gaming facility: means that portion of a building used for the purposes of operating, managing and maintaining lottery facility games. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
- Sports wagering: includes , but is not limited to, single game wagers, teaser wagers, parlays, over-under wagers, moneyline wagers, pools, exchange wagering, in-game wagers, in-play wagers, proposition wagers, straight wagers and such other wagers approved by the commission. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Upon receipt of a request to negotiate an existing gaming compact or a new gaming compact regarding sports wagering from a federally recognized Indian tribe pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. 2023 Supp. 46-2305, and amendments thereto, the governor shall submit notice of such request to the executive director. Upon receipt of such notice, the executive director shall enter into an agreement with the federally recognized Indian tribe that made such request for the operation and management of sports wagering by such tribe or any corporation, limited liability company or other business entity wholly owned by such tribe on behalf of the state of Kansas. Such agreement shall authorize the Kansas lottery to offer sports wagering through an interactive sports wagering platform to be managed by such tribe or business entity. The terms and conditions of such agreement shall be substantially the same as any lottery gaming facility management contract with respect to the operation and management of sports wagering.