Kentucky Senate passes ‘gray machines’ ban, sending HB 594 to Beshear

Kentucky Senate passes ‘gray machines’ ban, sending HB 594 to Beshear
Wildcat Skill and Burning Barrell are two of the most common 'gray machines' found in Kentucky today. Feb. 23, 2022

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Senate gave final passage Tuesday to a bill banning so-identified as “gray equipment,” the movie video games with funds payouts that have proliferated in suppliers, bars and golf equipment all over the state in modern yrs.

House Monthly bill 594 cleared by means of the chamber effortlessly by a 29-6 vote, sending it to the desk of Gov. Andy Beshear, who signed it into legislation on Thursday.

What the legislature really should do with gray equipment — identified as “ability video games” by supporters — has been one particular of the most greatly lobbied issues above the earlier two a long time in Frankfort, with two groups on opposing sides of HB 594 collectively spending extra than $300,000 on advertisements in January by itself.