August 18, 2016
Latest reports in the LA Times on the controversial issue of legalised online poker in California are that the latest amendments to tax and bad actor provisions may have achieved a sufficient consensus to merit sending bill AB 2863 to the Assembly floor for voting – perhaps next Monday. The tax amendment reportedly changes the […]
August 12, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 online poker legalisation bill would be considered by the Assembly on Thursday after it was pulled from the agenda at the beginning of this week (see previous report) were dashed when Gray again failed to present the measure, citing a lack of support and continuing negotiations on the […]
August 9, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker legalisation bill AB2863 would make an early appearance on the Assembly floor when the legislature reconvened Monday were dashed when the day passed with no such activity. The bill has been bogged down by disagreements principally about “bad actor” clauses, with the Pechanga-Agua Caliente tribal coalition demanding […]
August 5, 2016
With the California legislature back at work the future of Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 online poker legalisation bill is again attracting attention, with Gray’s chief of staff Trent Hager claiming that the bill will go to the Assembly floor as early as next Monday, perhaps as part of a drive to legalise daily fantasy […]
July 6, 2016
The failure of Assemblyman Adam Gray to push forward his online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 for a vote on the California state Assembly floor on June 30 has been explained… in a last-minute tally of political support he determined that he would be just short of the two thirds vote he needed under legislative […]
July 1, 2016
The euphoria over the passage out of committee stage of California’s online poker legalisation bill AB 2863 (see previous reports) started to fade as the week came to an end with no floor vote in the California Assembly and time running out. The Assembly adjourns today (Friday) and returns at the end of July for […]
June 26, 2016
The online publication Flushdraw took a closer look at the recently released Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) poll, which purported to show that Californians are not in favour of legalised online poker, and expressed reservations over the accuracy of the findings. Our readers will recall that the FM3 study was commissioned by the […]
June 21, 2016
The chief tribal opponents of current online poker legislative proposals in California have resorted to a resident telephone poll in their latest attack, hiring an independent firm which delivered the sort of results they presumably wanted. The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the Barona Band of Mission Indians […]
June 16, 2016
Uncertainty created by unpublished proposed amendments temporarily stalled Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 intrastate online poker legalisation bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, dashing hopes of rapid progress to a floor vote for now at least. On the bright side, it appears likely that the measure will be revisited within the next week […]
June 13, 2016
The lines are being drawn in the political battle for online poker legalisation in California; last week a Pechanga-led tribal coalition expressed disagreement with certain clauses in the latest version of Assemblyman’s Adam Gray’s AB2863 (see previous report), and Friday saw an equally pointed response supporting the bill from an impressive alliance of 21 state […]