Update: Panel Rejects ‘Instant Racing’

The Senate State Affairs Committee has voted in favor of SB 1011, to repeal instant racing in Idaho; that sends the bill to the full Senate for a vote. If it passes there and in the House and receives the governor’s signature, the machines now installed at three locations in Idaho would become illegal as of July 1. There was only one “no” vote, from acting Sen. Kimberly Johnson of Caldwell, who is filling in for Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, R-Huston. Johnson disclosed earlier that she has a potential conflict of interest because she is involved in the horse industry/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .

Also:

• ‘Instant racing’: A policy question
• AG: Not machines given us to review
• Fact Check: ‘Instant Racing’ claims …
• Testimony: Les Bois will shut w/o ‘instant racing’
• Testimony: ‘Idaho was built on the backs of horses’
• Testimony: ‘Horses are as much Idaho as potatoes’
• Roden: No question this is a simulated slot machine
• Testimony: What we have isn’t what was represented
• Testimony: Appearance of machine doesn’t change its function