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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri Senate Bill 862 legalizes and regulates video lottery terminals, funds illegal gaming enforcement, and doubles excursion boat admission fees
Last action · February 23, 2026: Re-referred S Select Committee on GamingSponsor: Jason Bean
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What This Bill Would Do
This bill establishes the Missouri Video Lottery Regulatory Act to license and permit in retail establishments, while increasing admission fees from $2 to $4 to support veterans. It creates the Illegal Gaming Enforcement Fund using terminal fee revenue and establishes the Missouri Gaming Bureau within the Department of Public Safety. Additionally, the measure distributes video lottery revenues equally between public education and local municipal and county administration taxes.
will be authorized in local retail establishments across the state, with terminal operators paying a 31 percent tax on and a $1,000 annual terminal fee. Local governments gain the authority to permit or prohibit these terminals through local ordinances, and cities and counties will receive a 3 percent municipal and county administration tax on terminal revenue.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Video lottery game operators and retailers
Operators and retailers must enter use agreements, pay application and annual administrative fees, abide by terminal caps and surveillance rules, and split adjusted gross revenues.
Public elementary, secondary, and higher education institutions
Institutions will receive equal appropriations from the remainder of the 31 percent adjusted gross gaming revenue collected by the State Lottery Commission after administrative expenses.
Municipalities and counties
Local governments gain the authority to permit or prohibit video lottery terminals locally and will receive a 3 percent administration tax distribution from terminal revenues.
Missouri Veterans Commission
The Commission will receive the additional $2 revenue allocation generated from the increased excursion gambling boat admission fee.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can video lottery terminals be placed under this bill?
Who receives the tax revenue generated by video lottery terminals?
What is the maximum wager and prize limit for video lottery games?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
4 actions- Feb 23, 2026SenateRe-referred S Select Committee on Gaming
- Jan 8, 2026SenateFloorSecond Read and Referred S Appropriations Committee
- Jan 7, 2026SenateIntroducedS First Read
- Dec 1, 2025SenatePrefiled
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. The text on record is the 5587S.01I - Introduced version. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Establishment of Statewide Video Lottery Regulation
The bill shifts state policy by formally authorizing, licensing, and taxing video lottery terminals across retail locations through a centralized computer system.
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Sources
www.senate.mo.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy75Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment20Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz60Current news / social attention level
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