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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri Senate Bill 850 establishes statewide video lottery terminals, licensing structures, and local opt-out rules
Last action · February 23, 2026: Re-referred S Select Committee on GamingSponsor: Karla May
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What This Bill Would Do
This act creates the Missouri Video Lottery Control Act, allowing the State Lottery Commission to license video lottery game terminals, manufacturers, distributors, operators, handlers, and retailers. Video lottery terminals are limited to veterans' organizations and establishments licensed to sell liquor by the drink where patrons must be over twenty-one. Municipalities and county commissions may adopt ordinances prohibiting these terminals within one hundred twenty days of the act's effective date.
Establishes a new regulated gaming market in Missouri, directing net proceeds to public education, STEM programs, and workforce development, while giving local governments authority to ban the terminals entirely.
- State Senator Karla May represents Missouri's 4th Senate District in the General Assembly. context
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.
Veterans' organizations
Eligible to host up to ten video lottery game terminals and secure video lottery retailer licenses.
Liquor-serving business entities
Eligible to operate up to five video lottery game terminals if patrons are restricted to those over twenty-one.
Public elementary and secondary education
Receives net proceeds appropriated from video lottery game revenues with an emphasis on STEM and workforce development programs.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can video lottery terminals be placed under this bill?
How are the proceeds from the video lottery distributed?
Can local governments ban these video lottery terminals?
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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 4408S.01I - Introduced version. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Introduction of Statewide Video Lottery Regulation
Missouri shifts from uncoordinated or prohibited local video gaming toward a centralized, state-licensed system managed by the State Lottery Commission.
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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
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz60Current news / social attention level
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