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Politico.com says that the draft Internet poker bill featured on sites like Gambling911.com is “expected to drop during the lame-duck session”.
And, oh yeah, the measure not-so-subtly favors Senate Majority Leader and co-author Harry Reid’s home state.
From Politico.com:
DRAFT INTERNET POKER BILL FAVORS REID’S HOME STATE — The Internet gambling bill — expected to drop during the lame-duck session — sets qualifications for states to license legal online gambling that only Nevada meets, giving the state a clear field for regulating the Web poker industry and to profit handsomely from that job, Steve Friess reports. “[The bill] says that to qualify to be a licensing body for federally sanctioned online poker, a state must have ‘demonstrated capabilities relevant to the online poker environment.’ Only one state fits that description because only one has yet issued any Web poker licenses: Nevada. In addition, the legislation as written requires a cut of the 16 percent ‘poker activity fee’ collected by the federal government to go to the state in which the poker site is licensed.”
The most recent version of the draft bill removes language that would otherwise have punished individuals for playing on “unlicensed” Internet poker sites.
- Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com
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