An effort to ban gambling on the Internet has picked up prominent supporters in Congress, although significant obstacles remain in the way of it becoming law.
Read More . . .US Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas) has introduced the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2015, a House bill similar to his 2013 version that seeks "to establish a program for the licensing of Internet poker by States and federally recognized Indian tribes."
Read More . . .US senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a new piece of legislation that aims to reintroduce a ban on legalised online gaming in the country.
Read More . . .California legislators held yet another hearing on Wednesday regarding proposals to legalize online poker, but the state's stubborn stakeholders failed to demonstrate any serious desire to resolve their differences.
Read More . . .Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has signed a bill on Monday that will allow the first casino in the state to be built on non-tribal land.
Read More . . .California will hold another hearing to discuss the merits of legalizing and regulating real-money online poker sites tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. local time in Sacramento.
Read More . . .Phyllis Kahn's experience with betting constituted an unprofitable day at the races. It was not really her thing. "I don't hang around with people who do a lot of gambling," she said.
Read More . . .If Pennsylvania were to authorize Internet gambling, it could take the larger part of a year before online play could begin, a state gaming official told a Senate panel Wednesday.
Read More . . .Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, has been placed under investigation by the State Ethics Commission over possible conflict of interest in the review of a proposed casino.
Read More . . .Pennsylvania has confirmed the formal introduction of a new bill that could lead to the launch of a regulated online gaming market in the US state.
Read More . . .Republican state senators in Pennsylvania are preparing to introduce legislation to allow Internet gambling. The forthcoming bill was advertised yesterday by Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and three other Republicans.
Read More . . .International Game Technology (IGT) has announced that its GTECH Corporation subsidiary has agreed a deal to provide the Massachusetts Gaming Commission with a central monitoring system that will be used to analyse electronic gaming devices in the US state.
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