Illinois Latest State to Consider Online Poker, Gaming. Michael Jones : May 16th, 2012 Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton is floating the idea of regulating online poker and gaming in the state, according to a letter he wrote this week. While many states in the United States are considering online poker and gaming regulation, only Nevada has actually passed legislation and appears set to move forward with offering online poker later this year or early next.
Cullerton envisions Illinois becoming a leader in the U.S. for internet gaming; here’s part of his letter to Gov. Pat Quinn and fellow legislators: We estimate that the potential new revenues to the state are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. You can read the entire letter here. Cullerton’s plans for online gaming are ambitious and wide-ranging, when compared with efforts in other states.
A story at the Chicago Tribune website (which you can read here) by Ray Long and Alissa Groeninger notes that the Chicago legislature is set to adjourn at the end of the month. Illlinois racing to be international hub for Web gambling. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is not alone in the rush to expand legalized gambling to the Internet. According to U.S. Internet Gambling Regulatory Tracker, nine other states are reviewing legislation dealing with Internet poker and online casino gambling.
That’s up from seven states in 2011 and the number could grow, the tracking service noted in an advisory issued last week. “With 19 state legislatures and Congress still in session, this calendar year, during which more states have considered Internet gambling legislation than any other in history, could yield even more legislative activity,” said Chris Krafcik, research director for GamblingCompliance, which operates the tracking service.
A measure to legalize and regulate online poker in Iowa was brought up but failed to clear the Iowa Legislature this spring. Cullerton, D-Chicago, wants the state to become an international hub for Internet gaming. “We will do something before we leave May 31,” said Sen. But Gov. Illinois aims to capture iGaming revenues. After becoming the first state in the United States to sell lottery tickets over the Internet in March, Illinois could soon be embracing all forms of online gambling in an effort to help pay off some of its estimated nine billion dollar annual budget deficit. Under proposed legislation introduced on Tuesday by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, the Midwestern state would create a Division of Internet Gaming and look into the possibility of establishing an online poker site for residents in order to transform ‘The Land of Lincoln’ into an international iGaming hub.
According to a report from the Reuters news service, the Chicago Democrat added that his proposed bill has to be approved in the current legislative session, which is scheduled to end on May 31, in order to qualify under a measure pending in the United States Senate that would only permit states with a regulatory framework in place to offer Internet gambling. Del. Officials Eye Gambling Expansion, Online Bets. Delaware on the Defensive, Considers Online Poker. Delaware Legislative Hall In response to increased gaming competition from Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, the state of Delaware is considering a plan to allow online bets, the governor’s office told Card Player. “Our industry is on the severe defensive,” said Brian Selander, Chief Strategy Officer to Gov. Jack Markell. The Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012 is still being drafted and will be introduced by the end of next week, Selander said.
In addition to legalizing casino games on the Internet, the measure would allow an online lottery and expand keno and sports betting in the brick-and-mortar setting. Selander said the bill has a good chance of passing. In order to become law in Delaware, the measure would have to navigate through both the House and Senate before landing on the governor’s desk. “Delaware moves quickly, and we tend not to fight all that much,” Selander said. Efforts are aided by a December 2011 legal opinion from the Department of Justice. Mississippi. Online Gaming Bill Introduced in Mississippi. Mississippi has become the latest in a growing list of US states looking to regulate internet poker and other forms of online gambling in the wake of the recent Department of Justice reinterpretation of the Wire Act. Late on Wednesday, Democrat Bobby Moak filed the Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2012, a House Bill that looks to legalize and regulate all forms of internet gambling in the state.
The bill calls for “an effective state regulatory and licensing system for online gaming” to ensure safe games, and to bring “much-needed jobs” and tax revenue to the state rather than send it overseas. “Millions of people have chosen to engage in online gaming through illegal off-shore operators, and such unlawful gambling is conducted without oversight, regulation, or enforcement,” states the preamble. “Without regulation of online gambling, the public’s trust and confidence in legal gaming is impacted.” Mississippi Becomes Latest State to Introduce Online Gaming Bill. Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/1300-1399/HB1373IN.pdf. Mississippi Internet Gaming Bill Dies in Committee. Online poker players from Mississippi received disappointing news last week when a bill aimed at legalizing the activity was killed in committee. Rep. Bobby Moak introduced the Mississippi Lawful Internet Gaming Act of 2012 on Feb. 20, two months after the Department of Justice concluded that forms of gambling other than sports betting fell outside of the Wire Act of 1961.
Moak's proposed measure aimed to legalize and regulate online gambling, including poker, within Mississippi state lines, and would have allowed gaming operators already holding licenses in the state to offer Internet wagering. However, the bill failed to make its way through the Ways and Means committee and the Gaming committee on March 6, ending any hopes of the bill becoming a law. Mississippi legalized gambling along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast in 1990 and has since approved the construction of 30 brick-and-mortar casinos in the state. Get all the latest PokerNews updates on your social media outlets. Utah considering anti-gambling legislation. A member of the Utah House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would prohibit online gambling in the western state should any of the proposed federal legislation legalising the activity get the nod. Stephen Sandstrom presented his House Bill 108 to representatives in the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City yesterday and revealed that the measure would, if passed by both houses of the legislature and subsequently signed into law by Republican Governor Gary Herbert, prevent residents of the Beehive State from gambling on the Internet using a computer or handheld device.
Sandstrom declared that his proposed legislation would also block the possibility of aboriginal casinos opening in Utah and comes as a direct response to federal measures currently being considered in Congress that would legalise online gambling in states that do not choose to proactively opt out. “Utah is only one of two states that prohibit any form of gambling, Hawaii being the other. Utah Governor Pens Letter Against Federal Online Poker Bill. Gov. Gary Herbert The governor of Utah has sent a letter to two of the most powerful members of Congress to insist that online gaming not be legalized nationwide. Card Player received a copy of the letter dated April 4, 2012.
Dear Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid: I am writing to ask you to oppose current proposals to federalize internet poker and casino gambling. Specifically, the residents of the State of Utah have always been very clear about our views that allowing gambling on the internet or other venues is not in Utah’s best interests. I appreciate your careful and positive consideration of our reviews on this very important issue. Sincerely, Gary R. Utah’s anti-gambling position Utah and Hawaii are the only two jurisdictions in the country without legalized gambling of any kind.
Utah Capitol Building The Beehive State quickly passed a law this spring that criminalizes card playing in cyberspace, as well as preemptively bans the activity should the U.S. General. The news has now hit every poker media outlet: the DOJ ruling from December will rush in a new movement of intrastate online poker. The question now is: Which states will jump on board first and how quickly will they get there? Several states have either signed or are considering laws to regulate online poker in some fashion within their own borders.
Among the states that have come out in some form to regulate online poker are: Nevada, New Jersey, Iowa, California, and the District of Columbia. Other states such as Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and Ohio have publically considered other forms of online gambling and may join in the race for online poker in the not so distant future. Nevada: population 2,700,000 Nevada provisions to govern the licensing and operation of internet gambling and was approved by Governor Sandoval last June. New Jersey: population 8,800,000 Despite a veto from Gov. Source: Press of Atlantic City Iowa: population 3,000,000 California: population 37,200,000. Time for action on online gaming - Monday, Feb. 13. Richard Skip Bronson Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 | 2 a.m. Now that the football season in America has ended in spectacular fashion, we turn our sights and head directly into the heart of the next league of fantasy statistics, bone-crushing hits and end zone celebrations.
That’s right, state legislatures are now in session across the country. This is the time of year when political intensity reaches its peak. Budgets are proposed, criticized and ultimately passed. Programs are slashed and new ideas are born. This explains why 2012 will be known as the year that at least one state – probably two or three – launch the first instance of legalized online gambling in the United States. Reports by Morgan Stanley suggest that 15 million, or more, Americans today will log onto their computer and illegally play poker online. Technology can monitor financial transactions, verify ages and locations, track play patterns and ultimately, prevent play from compulsive gamblers before they become problematic.
THE FIGHT brings you the latest news on the regulation and legalization of online poker. | BLUFF Poker News. Maine. AUGUSTA, Maine — Lawmakers said the expansion of online gambling allowed by a recent U.S. Department of Justice ruling will spread quickly to Maine and urged the establishment of regulations just as quickly to address that inevitability. Members of the Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee on Wednesday heard from three of its members who attended a recent gambling conference in Las Vegas. All three said online gambling, including online poker and Internet sale of lottery tickets, is poised to explode and Maine needs to be ready. “This is a very sophisticated business that we need to catch up on; that was a stark reality,” said Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden. Added Rep. So how can lawmakers take what they heard at this national conference and turn it into policy? A carryover bill, LD 227, sponsored by Valentino, sought to adopt a comprehensive state policy that regulates the construction and operation of casinos in Maine.
Last month, the U.S. Rep. Texas. Connecticut. In Conn., Tribes Hope To Win Big With Online Poker. Hide captionGamblers play on some of the more than 6,000 slot machines at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. The casino is owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribe. Mario Tama/Getty Images Connecticut has two casinos that generate millions of dollars a year for the state. Following a recent change in the interpretation of regulations against online gambling, casino operators and state officials are closely watching to see what kind of impact online poker will have on their revenue. Even though it's a weekday, there are plenty of people sitting at slot machines or playing table games at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. Mohegan Tribe Chairman Bruce "Two Dogs" Bozsum looks with pride at the main gaming floor.
"We're packed all the time — 30- to 35,000 people come through here a day," he says. The entire casino resort covers 185 acres. 1961 – The Interstate Wire Wager Act of 1961 bans bets over telecommunications systems that cross state lines or national borders. —Beenish Ahmed. Legalized online gambling looking less likely for Connecticut - News - Post-Chronicle. By Jordan Fenster, Register Staffjfenster@nhregister.com / Twitter: @jordanfenster HARTFORD — Despite a recent U.S.
Department of Justice opinion that appeared to allow states to roll the dice on Internet gambling, online poker will not be coming to Connecticut any time soon. State Rep Stephen Dargan, D-West Haven, said in his opening remarks at an informational hearing on the subject held Thursday by the legislature’s Public Safety and Security Committee that no legislation was planned in that committee for the coming legislative session, and that a recent conversation with Gov.
Dannel P. Malloy led Dargan to believe no bills would be proposed from the governor’s office. And according to testimony from Assistant Attorney General Bob Clark, for Internet gaming to come to the state, legislation would be required. The U.S. “All the Justice Department opinion did was to eliminate one layer of uncertainty,” about certain types of online gambling, he said. When Sen. “Probably not,” he said. Governor: Online Gambling will Come to Connecticut. Speaking at a press conference at the Connecticut Legislative Office Building on Monday, the state governor, Dannel P. Malloy said that he believed that it was inevitable that online gambling would come to Connecticut. He said that he believed that there was a level of misunderstanding about internet wagering and its prospects in the state, and touched on the recent federal opinion which may change the face of online gambling in the United States. Editor Note: If you live in Nevada, New Jersey or Deleware you can now play for real money at www.wsop.com.
For out of state residents, we recommend www.Bovada.lv. “It is quite clear that Internet gaming is coming to Connecticut. Period. Connecticut’s gambling industry generates $350 million each year to the state and employs 20,000 people. “The Internet is the Internet. “If it moves forward, and it’s clearly going to move forward, it’s going to be available in Connecticut. Online Gambling: Here Already. As the Finance Committee was hearing expert testimony on the pitfalls of online gambling, one of the committee’s younger members demonstrated on his iPad one reason for the state to allow it—it’s already happening.
Support authentic, locally owned and operated public service journalism! Become a member Sitting in a hearing room in the Legislative Office Building, Rep. Roland Lemar, D- New Haven, pulled up the leading online gambling websites. “I was able to go through the entire application process, provide my credit card number, do everything except click start,” he said Monday. The sites were careful to point out for him that no American has ever been prosecuted for online gambling and that all the legal risks associated wouldn’t be on him if he chose to gamble, he said. Lemar demonstrated what Gov. “The playing field with respect to gaming is about to change,” Malloy said Monday following the Bond Commission meeting. Sen.
“We’re not here to say don’t do online gambling. Rep. Washington (oppinion)
California - SB40. California’s Latest Online Gambling Bill: In-Depth Look. Www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1451-1500/sb_1463_bill_20120224_introduced.pdf. SB45. Cardoza, racing lobbyist meet state lawmakers over online gaming. Tribes could put crimp in push to legalize online gaming. California online lottery tickets. State voters of two minds about legalizing online poker, poll finds. California Online Poker Bill Headed for Battle. Intra-state sportsbetting legislation advances in California. California a Likely Loner for Online Poker. Legalized online gambling sought in Calif. bill | Page 2 of 2. Iowa Poll: Iowans narrowly favor bans on red light, speed cameras. Online poker bill clears Iowa Senate panel. OUR OPINION: Onlike poker bill: A lost opportunity. Review igaming report. Legalizing Online Gambling in Iowa. Multistate online poker possibility studied. Iowa Online Poker Bill Could Come This Month. Poker News, Florida’s intrastate online poker bill passes Senate.
Massachusetts. State Rep: Online poker fits Bay State tech profile. Poker on the table as state mulls online bets. New Jersey. SBOANJ. Online betting in NJ may inch forward this week | Meadowlands Matters. New poll finds support for legalised New Jersey online gambling. Reintroduced Bill. Despite Delay, Lesniak Expects Online Poker in New Jersey by September. N.J. Legislature to decide whether to permit online gaming. January - New push for bill. New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak Reintroduces Internet Gambling Bill. Lesniak postpones online gambling legislation. Legal questions, legislative scheduling delay N.J. internet gaming bill. Amendments to New Jersey sportsbetting proposal. Delay for sportsbetting legislation. Senate panel approves bill allowing internet gambling in N.J. New Jersey Internet Gambling Bill Passes Through Senate Committee.