Cincinnati.com – About 35 legislators attended a news conference Monday aimed at giving the casino issue a boost in the final days of the 2014 session, but seconds after it was over House Speaker Greg Stumbo said the issue still is effectively dead this year. “I’m just saying what members are saying,” said Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg. “What we’re running into as we count votes is they know that the Senate’s not going to act.” The expanded gambling issue remains locked in a stalemate between the Democratic-majority House and Republican-majority Senate, with both chambers’ leaders saying the other needs to act first….

A Louisville-based Kentucky casino advocacy group said Friday that it will support any of three proposed gambling bills. Kentucky Wins states that includes one introduced this week by House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg. But the board of the Kentucky Equine Education Project, a pro-casino horse group, voted Thursday to “strongly oppose” Stumbo’s bill, KEEP executive director Robert Heleringer said. Stumbo has said he didn’t confer with horse racing tracks before filing his bill, which would amend the state Constitution to allow the General Assembly to legislate expanded gambling. Stumbo’s bill doesn’t specify a number of potential casinos; he has not…

Courier Journal -A third constitutional amendment that could allow Kentucky casinos was filed on Tuesday by House Speaker Greg Stumbo. The Prestonsburg Democrat’s House Bill 584 would add a line to the constitution that says “nothing in this section shall preclude the General Assembly from authorizing other forms of gaming by general law.” If three-fifths of both chambers approve, the question that would be sent to voters for ratification would be: “Are you in favor of allowing the General Assembly to pass laws authorizing other forms of gaming?” The bill puts into writing Stumbo’s long-held position that the current constitutional…

Cincinnati.com – Kentucky’s efforts to seize 132 internet gambling domain names is on hold after an appeals court ruled Friday that a trade association may represent the owners of the sites trying to fend off forfeiture proceedings. The decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals allows the Interactive Gaming Council to step into the 6-year-old case and, at least temporarily, keep the identities of the owners of various internet gambling sites from being publicly revealed. Judge Allison Jones, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, noted that Kentucky has treated the domain names as a group for much of the litigation but…

In a unanimous opinion, the Kentucky Supreme Court made a decision on so called Instant Racing. They ruled that the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has the legal authority to regulate wagers on previously run horse races presented on electronic gambling machines — but that the legality of the wagers themselves has yet to be established. The court said the case must go back to Franklin Circuit Court, where it originated, to determine whether “the licensed operation of wagering on historical horse racing as contemplated by (the racetracks and the state) constitutes a parimutuel form of wagering.” The court also reversed…

Courier Journal – Gov. Steve Beshear acknowledged Wednesday that the effort he supports to pass expanded gambling legislation in this year’s session is challenged, but added it’s not dead yet. “I think it’s premature to say that it is dead at this point,” he said. “It is a work that is in progress.” The Senate Republican majority caucus discussed the issue on Monday and decided not to move forward, with Sen. Dan Seum, R-Louisville and sponsor of the Senate Bill 33 casino amendment, saying he still lacked the 23 votes to pass the amendment in the 38-member Senate. Senate Majority…