A bill to legalize Internet poker in California is being declared dead.
The California Online Poker
Association, a coalition led by the Morongo Band of Mission
Indians, supported Senate Bill 40.
But other politically-connected tribes, including the California Tribal Business
Alliance, opposed it.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D) said he expects the bill will be rewritten to get another hearing in January 2012.
Federal law bars Internet wagering except for games legalized by state law or through a tribal-state Class III compact.
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Effort to legalize online poker in California dead for now
(The Oakland Tribune 8/23)
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Bill to legalize Internet poker in California dead amid opposition
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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