California tribes agree to online poker bill draft

After months of negotiations the California tribes which have been negotiating an agreement on poker legislation came out on Tuesday 3rd June and said that they had reached a settlement on how online poker should it be legalized in the state should look like.

Thirteen tribes have now agreed on the draft bill which would currently exclude PokerStars from entering the business there as part of the draft bill includes a “Bad Actor” clause similar to that used in Nevada, excluding any company offering online poker in the US after 2006.

However one tribe the Morongo Band of Mission Indians who have an arrangement with PokerStars to offer products in California will not sign the bill, predictably because they want PokerStars involved in online poker in the state.

The draft letter on the agreed bill was sent to State Senator Lou Correa and Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer (the two sponsors of the current online poker bills in the California state legislature) and explaining their new agreement with thirteen tribes, they also sent a draft copy of their online poker bill, which is called the “The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2014.”

How this new agreed draft bill will fair as it has not been presented for legislation is unclear but many observers in the state involved in the push for online poker believe that without the support of all the tribes it will fail.

Staff

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