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U.S. Organizations Seek Online Casino Regulations

The United States Congress signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act into law late 2006, in the in months since, the United States has been in an uproar over the online casino regulations. Though many still debate how the UIGEA was enacted—it was added to unrelated “must-pass” legislation, some organizations in the U.S. stand firm behind the legislation and believe that the U.S. Treasury is remiss in its duties to develop the specific regulations for banks and financial institutions. The Focus on the Family Organization was happy to see online casinos banned, and now they are pushing for a quick turn-around on follow-up regulations.

According to the UIGEA, the U.S. Treasury and the Attorney General’s office have 270 days to hammer out the precise regulations and standards the financial institutions must follow. But as the deadline approaches, both the banks and the organizations like Focus on the Family wonder what is taking so long… why have the Treasury and AG been remiss in drafting appropriate regulations. Because the specifics of the Act are not in place yet, financial institutions that unknowingly process online casino transactions are not held accountable.

Some wonder if the AG and Treasury really plan on backing the legislation by providing specific and enforceable regulations that will put a firm stop to all online casinos accepting U.S. monies. The Focus on the Family organization is strongly supports the anti-online casino initiative, and are vocal in their support. According to the organization’s gambling analyst, Chad Hills, enforcing the UIGEA and effectively banning online casinos should be relatively simple. On behalf of the organization he says, “We estimate that about five federal employees working on this could keep and maintain a list of Internet gambling operations.”

Others though wonder if the delay is because of the online casino companies themselves. Tom McClusky, a representative for the Family Research Council (an organization also supporting the anti-online casinos legislation) comments, “The gambling forces seem to have some friends in those departments that might have been helping write some of those regulations. It’s almost setting up a fourth branch of government – a bureaucracy branch – that decides what laws they want to enforce and what laws they want to basically rewrite.”