Californian Senator reintroduces online poker legislation
The Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2013 is the brainchild of California State Senator Roderick Wright and seeks to establish a framework for intra-state gambling that could bring in revenues of us$200 million from licensing fees over the next twelve months.
Also known as Senate Bill 51, the measure from the Inglewood Democrat covers only online poker and would additionally allow The Golden State to opt into ‘any agreement with other states to provide Internet gambling’ as well as ‘any federal framework for Internet gambling’.
With the California legislature not scheduled to reconvene until January 7, Wright’s measure most likely will not see hearings until March despite being designated as an ‘urgency statute’, which means it would take effect immediately if passed by a two-thirds majority in both the California State Senate and California State Assembly.
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