May 20, 2015
Today’s joint California Assembly-Senate hearing on online poker by the Governmental Organization committees appears to have steered clear of overt vested interests to focus on information from expert witnesses. The witness list presented by chairmen Sen.Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Adam Gray includes: Anita Lee, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analyst from the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office; […]
May 19, 2015
In what appears to be a well-timed sequel to a joint California Assembly-Senate legislative hearing on internet poker scheduled for May 20, Pokerstars has organised live internet poker demonstrations in the state capital Sacramento. Pokerstars is keen to achieve licensing in any legalised online poker regime that may emerge in the state, where for the […]
May 10, 2015
This week saw the emergence of a powerful new element in the debate on internet poker legalisation in California – the Teamsters and Service Employee International Union (SEIU), a trade union representing the interests of some 50,000 workers in the horse racing industry. Union representative Barry Broad told the publication Online Poker Report this week […]
May 6, 2015
The surge of enthusiasm at the news that an online poker legalisation bill has at last managed to make it through a legislative committee in California (see previous reports) has given way to a pragmatic assessment of AB431 – the bill in question. Proposer Assemblyman Adam Gray (who is also chair of the Assembly Governmental […]
April 28, 2015
Monday could prove to be a memorable date in online poker following the historic first passage through a legislative committee of an online poker legalisation bill in California. Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB431 represents progress at last after years of failures while politicians struggled to find common ground among the numerous competing interests that either want […]
April 24, 2015
A comment at an i-gaming conference by a California politician has triggered a new initiative designed to make political representatives in the state aware that online poker legalisation is still very much a live issue on which positive action is awaited. The politician was Representative Mike Gatto, author of one of the four bills currently […]
April 24, 2015
Wednesday’s cancelled California House hearing on internet poker (see previous report) will now take place on Monday 27 April, legislature sources have confirmed. The hearing will commence at 1.30pm local time in the Assembly’s Governmental Organization Committee.
April 17, 2015
Further information is now available on the planned joint informational hearings on the legalisation of online poker by California’s Senate and Assembly Government Organization committees (see previous reports). The first hearing is titled “Overview of Gambling in California; Legality, Authorization and Regulation” and will take place on May 20 at 1:30pm PST. The second hearing […]
April 16, 2015
It looks like another very active California legislative season for online poker legalisation as politicians warm up for yet another year of trying to reach consensus and pass a workable online poker legalisation measure. Our readers will recall that there are currently four bills on the table. Two of these, introduced by Senator Isadore Hall […]
April 5, 2015
A report over the weekend on the respected information site Online Poker Report suggests that an influential tribal group – the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians – may be moving away from its insistence that any California online poker legalisation bills contain “bad actor” exclusion clauses against companies that provided online gambling services to US […]