Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

Legalizing Poker in the United States

The Players Poker Alliance and online casino poker players from all over California are in support of a new bill that proposes a study into the legalities of licensing and regulating internet poker within the state of California. A prominent Californian state legislator has put the bill AB 2026 onto the table and is now pushing for support. Assemblyman Lloyd Levine proposes the bill that would not legalize online casinos poker, but rather the bill calls for a study to be conducted to investigate all aspects of licensing and regulating internet poker – from federal restrictions to state autonomy rights.

Bill AB 2026 specifies that the California Gambling Control Commission (which currently oversees the extensive land gambling industry in the state) would conduct a study that examines all of the aspects of online casino poker: the “regulatory oversight and licensing, technological issues, underage and problem gambling matters, methods of play and types of games that may be legally offered, economic benefits to state and local governments, and the means by which those games and forms of gambling may be conducted and operated.”

A main question that many in the industry are unsure of: does the Federal government have jurisdiction if a state to operates online gambling activities for players within the state? Basically, the study will provide the state with needed information that is currently unavailable in the United States. And though there is current a bill gaining support in Congress to conduct a national study on online casino gambling, Levine’s bill is limited to California and if passed, the bill calls for the study to be completed by June 30, 2009 by the very latest.