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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-8787

  • Commission: means the Kansas lottery commission. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • 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
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • Lottery gaming facility manager: means a corporation, limited liability company, resident Kansas American Indian tribe or other business entity authorized to construct and manage, or manage alone, pursuant to a lottery gaming facility management contract with the Kansas lottery, and on behalf of the state, a lottery gaming enterprise and lottery gaming facility. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • Match-fixing: means to arrange or determine any action that occurs during a sporting event, including, but not limited to, any action resulting in the final outcome of such sporting event, for financial gain. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • Person: means any natural person, association, limited liability company, corporation or partnership. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • Prize: means any prize paid directly by the Kansas lottery pursuant to the Kansas lottery act or the Kansas expanded lottery act or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to either act. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • Sporting event: means any professional or collegiate sport or athletic event, motor race event or any other special event authorized by the commission that has not occurred at the time wagers are placed on such event. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
  • Sports governing body: means the organization that prescribes the final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and the participants in such event. 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

(a) Lottery gaming facility managers shall use reasonable methods to:

(1) Prohibit such manager, and any director, officer, owner and employee of the manager, and any relative living in the same household as such persons, from placing wagers with the manager at the manager’s location or through the manager’s interactive sports wagering platform;

(2) prohibit an interactive sports wagering platform, any director, officer, owner and employee of such platform and any relative living in the same household as such persons from placing any wager through such platform or at the manager’s location, except that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit any such person from placing any wager through a lottery gaming facility manager or interactive sports wagering platform with which such person has no affiliation;

(3) prohibit any director, officer, owner and employee of the sports wagering platform, and any relative living in the same household as such persons, from placing wagers with the manager;

(4) prohibit athletes, coaches, referees, team owners, employees of a sports governing body or its member teams, and player and referee union personnel from placing wagers on any sporting event overseen by such sports governing body. In determining which persons are excluded from placing wagers under this paragraph, lottery gaming facility managers shall use publicly available information and any list of such persons that the sports governing body may provide to the Kansas lottery and the Kansas racing and gaming commission;

(5) prohibit any person with access to nonpublic confidential information held by the lottery gaming facility manager from placing wagers with such manager;

(6) prohibit persons from placing wagers as agents or proxies for other persons;

(7) prohibit any person convicted of any felony or misdemeanor offense involving sports wagering, including, but not limited to, the use of funds derived from illegal activity to make wagers, placing wagers to conceal money derived from illegal activity, the use of other individuals to place wagers as part of any wagering scheme to circumvent any provision of federal or state law and the use of false identification to facilitate the placement of any wager or the collection of any prize in violation of federal or state law, from placing wagers; and

(8) maintain the security of wagering data, customer data and other confidential information from unauthorized access and dissemination, provided that nothing in this act shall preclude the use of internet or cloud-based hosting of such data and information or disclosure as required by court order, state or federal law or as otherwise required by this act.

(b) Lottery gaming facility managers shall cooperate with any investigations conducted by the Kansas lottery, the Kansas racing and gaming commission or law enforcement agencies, including, but not limited to, providing or facilitating the provision of account-level betting information and audio or video files relating to persons placing wagers.

(c) Lottery gaming facility managers shall immediately report to the Kansas lottery and the Kansas racing and gaming commission any information relating to:

(1) Criminal or disciplinary proceedings commenced against such manager in connection with such manager’s operations in any jurisdiction in which such manager operates;

(2) abnormal wagering activity or patterns that may indicate a concern with the integrity of a sporting event in any jurisdiction in which such manager operates;

(3) any potential breach of the relevant sports governing body’s internal rules and codes of conduct pertaining to sports wagering;

(4) any other conduct that corrupts a betting outcome of a sporting event for purposes of financial gain, including match-fixing; and

(5) suspicious or illegal wagering activities, including the use of: Funds derived from illegal activity; wagers to conceal or launder funds derived from illegal activity; agents to place wagers; and false identification when placing wagers.

(d) Information provided by a sports governing body to a lottery gaming facility manager shall be confidential and not subject to the open records act, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 45-215 et seq., and amendments thereto, and the lottery gaming facility manager shall not disclose such information or any portion thereof, unless disclosure is required by this act, the Kansas racing and gaming commission, state or federal law or court order. The provisions of this subsection shall expire on July 1, 2027, unless the legislature acts to reenact such provision. The provisions of this subsection shall be reviewed by the legislature prior to July 1, 2027.

(e) Lottery gaming facility managers may use data for determining the result of sports wagers from any source that provides certified league data approved by the executive director.

(f) Any interactive sports wagering platform used by a lottery gaming facility manager shall allow any individual placing a sports wager through such platform to elect to not have such individual’s personally identifiable information collected by such platform or by such lottery gaming facility manager for any purpose other than recording the placing of the sportswager, payment of any prize and as otherwise permitted by this section. Such election by an individual shall be maintained by such platform and lottery gaming facility manager until such time as the individual affirmatively cancels such election. No personally identifiable information of an individual who makes such election shall be used by such platform or lottery gaming facility manager except as permitted by this section.