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The US is bracing itself for a series of legal measures in the next few days that could change its federal and intrastate online gambling landscape forever.
The US is bracing itself for a series of legal measures in the next few days that could change its federal and intrastate online gambling landscape forever. Amendments, bills and movement in Washington DC, New Jersey, California, and a potential federal poker-only bill are due to be discussed, and could even be passed before the end of this week, according to numerous media reports across North America.
Politicians in Washington DC yesterday passed an amendment to its Fiscal Year 2011 Supplemental budget Support Act to allow the capital’s lottery to offer residents online skill games and games of chance. In New Jersey, following its Senate overwhelmingly voting in favour of a bill to allow online gambling in the state, its Assembly committee is due to discuss, and potentially pass, a number of gambling bills tomorrow including bill S-490, which would allow Atlantic City’s casinos to offer online versions of their games to state residents as well as to international customers; in the coming days California is due to announce a new sponsor– replacing Rod Wright – to reinvigorate its intrastate egaming bill; while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will attempt to pass a US federal online poker bill next Monday by attaching it to a package of tax cut measures President Barack Obama brokered with Republicans, US reports media reports have suggested.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is said to be preparing to pass a US federal online poker bill next Monday by attaching it to a package of tax cut measures President Barack Obama brokered with Republicans, US reports media reports have suggested.
While Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association (AGA), the representative body of the US land-based casinos, told eGaming Review last month in Las Vegas that he did not know if Reid would attempt to move an AGA-supported poker-only bill during the lame duck session, he did admit that it would be possible and that “t would probably be done in the way UIGEA was done. It was attached to a piece of legislation that everyone knows is going to pass. So if they reach a settlement on the Bush tax cuts, they would attach it.”
On Friday, eGaming Review reported that three Republican gambling opponents had written a letter to the heads of both US Houses opposing an apparent attempt by “certain interests” to pass a federal poker-only bill during the so-called “lame-duck” period between last month’s elections and the inauguration of officials early next year.
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The US is bracing itself for a series of legal measures in the next few days that could change its federal and intrastate online gambling landscape forever. Amendments, bills and movement in Washington DC, New Jersey, California, and a potential federal poker-only bill are due to be discussed, and could even be passed before the end of this week, according to numerous media reports across North America.
Politicians in Washington DC yesterday passed an amendment to its Fiscal Year 2011 Supplemental budget Support Act to allow the capital’s lottery to offer residents online skill games and games of chance. In New Jersey, following its Senate overwhelmingly voting in favour of a bill to allow online gambling in the state, its Assembly committee is due to discuss, and potentially pass, a number of gambling bills tomorrow including bill S-490, which would allow Atlantic City’s casinos to offer online versions of their games to state residents as well as to international customers; in the coming days California is due to announce a new sponsor– replacing Rod Wright – to reinvigorate its intrastate egaming bill; while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will attempt to pass a US federal online poker bill next Monday by attaching it to a package of tax cut measures President Barack Obama brokered with Republicans, US reports media reports have suggested.
Federal poker-only
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is said to be preparing to pass a US federal online poker bill next Monday by attaching it to a package of tax cut measures President Barack Obama brokered with Republicans, US reports media reports have suggested.
While Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association (AGA), the representative body of the US land-based casinos, told eGaming Review last month in Las Vegas that he did not know if Reid would attempt to move an AGA-supported poker-only bill during the lame duck session, he did admit that it would be possible and that “t would probably be done in the way UIGEA was done. It was attached to a piece of legislation that everyone knows is going to pass. So if they reach a settlement on the Bush tax cuts, they would attach it.”
On Friday, eGaming Review reported that three Republican gambling opponents had written a letter to the heads of both US Houses opposing an apparent attempt by “certain interests” to pass a federal poker-only bill during the so-called “lame-duck” period between last month’s elections and the inauguration of officials early next year.
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