Missouri Gaming Commission News and Information

Casino gambling could be coming to Arkansas. Read the story from Arkansas Online.

Read the story in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Read about it in the Washington Post.

Congratulations to Mark Twain Casino Senior Office Support Assistant Patricia Levins on achieving 15 years at the Missouri Gaming Commission!

Pictured front row -Patricia Levins and Debi Gruenberg

Back Row- Cpl. Mark Hicks, David Leitman, Master Sgt. Chris Turner, Trooper Zach Harrison

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Gov. Nixon signs Missouri Fantasy Sports Consumer Protection Act

Governor had called for sensible regulation of fantasy sports in his 2016 State of the State Address

Jefferson City, Mo. – Keeping a commitment made in his State of the State address this past January, Gov. Jay Nixon today signed House Bill 1941, the Missouri Fantasy Sports Consumer Protection Act, into law. The Act establishes a number of consumer protection measures and creates a regulatory framework for fantasy sports contests in Missouri.

“When a new frontier of online betting is available at the touch of a screen, we have a responsibility to protect consumers and young people,” Gov. Nixon said. “I appreciate the General Assembly for answering my call to bring forward common-sense consumer protection to make sure fantasy sports gaming in Missouri is operated responsibly and with accountability.”

Under the Missouri Fantasy Sports Consumer Protection Act, the Missouri Gaming Commission will exercise broad regulatory authority over the operators of fantasy sports sites. This authority will include the ability for the Commission to investigate and license operators, as well as take action against operators who violate the Act.

To pay for the investigation and licensing of operators, the Commission will collect an application fee of $10,000 or 10 percent of the fantasy sports operator’s net revenue from Missouri participants for the previous year, whichever is less. In addition to the application fee, licensed operators will be required to pay an annual operation fee of 11.5 percent of its net revenue from Missouri participants for the previous year. The revenue collected from the operation fee will be deposited into the Gaming Proceeds for Education Fund.

The Missouri Fantasy Sports Consumer Protection Act provides numerous consumer protections, including prohibiting employees of fantasy sport companies from playing in contests offered to the public. Other consumer protections include:

• Prohibiting contests based on college, high school and youth sports;
• Mandating participant funds be segregated from operating funds and preventing unauthorized withdrawals;
• Prohibiting participants under the age of 18 and requiring operators to have age-verification procedures;
• Ensuring that prizes are deposited into a participant’s account within 48 hours;
• Establishing complaint procedures;
• Requiring licensed operators to develop and maintain online self-exclusion forms and processes;
• Imposing advertising restrictions on licensed operators, including restrictions on advertisements targeting those less than 18 years of age, those who have self-excluded themselves, and those on the Commission’s voluntary exclusion list and disassociated persons list;
• Prohibiting licensed operators from issuing credit to participant s and prohibiting an individual participant from opening multiple accounts;
• Regulating the use of scripts; and
• Requiring licensed operators to conduct and pay for annual independent financial audits to ensure compliance with the act.

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Rachel Thowe is a Clerk with the Missouri State Highway Patrol who happens to work in the Missouri Gaming Commission office. Rachel noticed we have a box of pop can tabs in the basement which were just sitting there collecting dust. This is when Rachel sprang into action. But first a story…

Rachel Thowe was a little girl living in the state of New York. In 1983 little Rachel was reaching onto a cabinet for some butter when she accidentally knocked over a coffee percolator and was burned over 65% of her body. She almost died. Rachel says Shriners Hospital saved her life. She has the scars to prove it, but she doesn’t talk about it unless asked.

Rachel decided years ago she wanted to help and give back to Shriners Hospitals, and as a youngster didn’t have the resources to do much. So she started collecting pop can tabs. She has collected thousands of pop can tabs and has delivered thousands to Shriners Hospitals.

Now that Rachel lives in mid-Missouri, her access to Shriners Hospital is limited so she has decided to deliver her pop can tabs to the Ronald McDonald House in Columbia, Missouri. Another worthy cause in her opinion, and in ours. When Rachel noticed nothing being done with the pop can tabs in the MGC basement she decided to take matters into her own hands. Now the pop can tabs will be going to a new home.

We are happy to help you Rachel.

Read the Associated Press story about Cape Girardeau benefitting from riverboat casino revenues in the Jefferson City News Tribune.

May 18th was National Employee Health and Fitness Day. MGC employees participated in St. Louis, Jefferson City, and Kansas City.

Daily Fantasy sports legislation has made its way through the Missouri Legislature and is now on the Governor's desk. Read the story from the Associated Press and KCTV 5.