Topeka ? Liquor store owners and local governments hoping for clarity on Sunday alcohol sales are unlikely to get solid guidance from the state anytime soon.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday she doubted the Legislature would consider revising the state’s liquor laws when lawmakers convened May 29 for a traditionally brief ceremonial adjournment.

Senate Majority Leader Lana Oleen agreed, noting that action during the annual closing ceremony was usually limited to making needed corrections in legislation passed during the regular session. The House approved a Sunday sales measure earlier this year, but the Senate did not go along.

Meanwhile, a patchwork of local governments taking steps to allow Sunday sales has been developing.

Wyandotte County began the trend last fall, citing an ambiguity in the state’s Liquor Control Act to opt out of Kansas’ traditional ban on retail alcohol sales on Sundays and several holidays.

Sebelius, at a news conference Wednesday, predicted the trend would continue.

“We’re likely to have a kind of interesting pattern of laws by the time the Legislature reconvenes,” Sebelius said.

Atty. Gen. Phill Kline has appealed last year’s ruling by a Wyandotte County district judge upholding the local Sunday sales ordinances in Kansas City, Kan., and Edwardsville.

The Kansas Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take the case directly without requiring that it be heard first in the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Pending a definitive court ruling or action by the Legislature, several communities have forged ahead on Sunday sales and, in some cases, holiday sales as well.

Sunday sales ordinances have now been approved in Lenexa, effective in late June, and in Overland Park, effective in late July.

The Lawrence City Commission is studying the issue.