Plans Revealed to Introduce Intrastate Online Poker Legislation in California
16/05/2010 11:05
Type Online Report
Theme poker
Senator Rod Wright, a prominent legislator in California, revealed plans to introduce a new intrastate online poker bill by the end of May at the Global iGaming Summit and Expo (GiGSE) in Montreal on 12 May.
This is good news for poker players in California, however Wright believes that there will be conflict over the bill because California’s present compacts grant exclusivity over class III gaming machines to Tribal Casinos, who share the revenue with the state.
Wright is on record as stating, “California has 68 compact-registered Indian tribes playing class III games... Our first argument will be whether or not playing online poker violates the compacts that were signed with those tribes – there is not even a unanimous opinion among the tribes themselves – so anything we do will have to go through the process of debating exclusivity and that could take two or three years.”
Wright's legislative assistants are in the process of drafting language for the new bill.
Similar legislation was proposed in California previously by Lloyd Levine, a former California Assemblyman, in 2008, however efforts to get the bill passed were unsuccessful.
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