June 28, 2018
Texas congressman Joe Barton is a name well known in the industry for his determined efforts to legalise online poker at federal level, and his name has surfaced again this week in a report in the publication Roll Call dealing with horseracing. Apparently Congress is mulling a bill in the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection […]
May 20, 2018
Renewing hopes for legalised online poker in the populous state of New York this week, the chairman of the state Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, Gary Pretlow, said that there is still a chance to get Assembly bill A 5250 passed before the current legislative session ends. Pro-legalisation lawmakers have been trying to get […]
January 27, 2018
With online poker legalisation bill S3898 making good progress through the committee stages in the New York Senate (see previous reports), attention turned this week to companion bill A5250 in the state House of Assembly. InfoPowa readers may recall that for the past two years both initiatives have been fruitless; the Senate has approved bills […]
January 24, 2018
For the third year running an online poker legalisation bill has passed the first hurdle – the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, which advanced the measure to the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday on a 10 vs. 1 vote. In previous years, and particularly last year, similar legislation made it all the way through the […]
January 6, 2018
Online poker observers report from New York that lawmakers are already gearing up to take another run at legalising online poker after two prior years of failure. InfoPowa readers will recall that last year bills sponsored by Rep. Gary Pretlow and Sen. John Bonacic came close but did not ultimately succeed; in the Senate Bonacic’s […]
September 26, 2017
For the tenth year running it appears that the legalisation of online poker in California remains a dream unlikely to be realised. The state Legislature ended its 2017 season on September 15 with no progress or apparent interest on Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 1677, introduced in February this year and still languishing in the […]
April 25, 2017
Several US industry observers have commented on the apparent lack of activity so far this year regarding online poker legalisation initiatives, and Online Poker Report offered a possible reason following an interview with Rep. Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a long-time driver of legalisation proposals in the state over the past decade. Jones-Sawyer said that he would not […]
March 22, 2017
Last week the inclusion of possible online poker revenues in the New York state budget (see previous reports) raised hopes that legalisation was just a step away, but that optimism has been dampened by the news that the provision has been removed in the final budget debate. Instead, the state Assembly has delayed discussion on […]
February 26, 2017
Optimism on the prospect of online poker legalisation in New York surged over the weekend following a television interview in which key Assembly lawmaker Gary Pretlow spoke encouragingly about the possibilities and revealed that he had filed a legalisation bill, supplementing that filed in the Senate earlier this year by Sen. John Bonacic (see previous […]
February 21, 2017
In what has become almost an annual event for the past decade, a proposal for the intrastate legalisation on online poker in California has again surfaced in the state Assembly. The indefatigable Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, undeterred by his past failures to achieve success, is again the man behind the new bill AB 1677, the Internet […]