August 5, 2016
With the California legislature back at work the future of Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 online poker legalisation bill is again attracting attention, with Gray’s chief of staff Trent Hager claiming that the bill will go to the Assembly floor as early as next Monday, perhaps as part of a drive to legalise daily fantasy […]
July 6, 2016
The failure of Assemblyman Adam Gray to push forward his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 for a vote on the California state Assembly floor on June 30 has been explained… in a last-minute tally of political support he determined that he would be just short of the two thirds vote he needed under legislative […]
June 16, 2016
The euphoria over Sen. John Bonacic’s achievement earlier this week in pushing an online poker legalisation bill through the New York state Senate on a vote of 53 vs. 5 (see previous reports) has quickly been replaced with a sense of pessimism over the measure’s chances in the state Assembly. On Wednesday Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, […]
June 16, 2016
Uncertainty created by unpublished proposed amendments temporarily stalled Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 intrastate online poker legalisation bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, dashing hopes of rapid progress to a floor vote for now at least. On the bright side, it appears likely that the measure will be revisited within the next week […]
June 13, 2016
The lines are being drawn in the political battle for online poker legalisation in California; last week a Pechanga-led tribal coalition expressed disagreement with certain clauses in the latest version of Assemblyman’s Adam Gray’s AB2863 (see previous report), and Friday saw an equally pointed response supporting the bill from an impressive alliance of 21 state […]
June 11, 2016
Despite the patient efforts of Assemblyman Adam Gray in trying to broker a difficult compromise among interested parties in the California online poker legalisation issue (see previous reports), the future of his bill AB 2863 appears to be in peril again following statements by a powerful tribal allowance Friday expressing continued opposition. The sticking points […]
June 3, 2016
With Sen. John Bonacic’s online poker legalisation bill making progress in the New York state Legislature’s committee stages (see previous reports), the US land gambling giant MGM Resorts International has come out in support. The Nevada-based group commented Thursday that the Bonacic measure recognises that millions of New Yorkers play online poker on unregulated and […]
May 3, 2016
Barely a month after it was introduced to the Michigan Senate by Sen. Mike Kowall (see previous report) online poker legalisation measure SB889 is to be the subject of a hearing in the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee tomorrow (Wednesday May 4). The bill has a good chance of making progress, considering that five of the […]
April 28, 2016
California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863 proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker survived Wednesday’s two hour hearing by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee and advanced on a vote of 18 vs. 0. Its continued progress marked only the second time in a decade-long series of attempts to get a legalisation bill through a California […]
April 23, 2016
Nine organisations representing the California horse racing industry have signalled their support for Assemblyman Adam Gray’s Assembly Bill 2863, which seeks to legalise intrastate online poker in California. The state horse racing industry is apparently prepared to stay out of the intrastate online poker market if it is paid a subsidy of up to $60 […]