Michigan online poker bill advances

June 9, 2016

Wednesday’s gathering of the Michigan Senate’s Regulatory Reform Committee wasted little time in voting forward to the Senate floor a bill authored by Sen. Mike Kowall and proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker. SB 889 has seen remarkably quick progress since it was introduced in April this year by the Senator, advancing despite allegations […]

Michigan senator upbeat on passage of online poker bill

May 13, 2016

Michigan Senator Mike Kowall remains optimistic that his proposal to legalise intrastate online poker will bear fruit this year following its first successful hearing in the state Senate Regulatory Reform Committee last week (see previous reports). Dave Biswas, an aide on the senator’s staff revealed this week that there will likely be another airing of […]

Michigan Senate Committee to consider online poker legalisation tomorrow

May 3, 2016

Barely a month after it was introduced to the Michigan Senate by Sen. Mike Kowall (see previous report) online poker legalisation measure SB889 is to be the subject of a hearing in the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee tomorrow (Wednesday May 4). The bill has a good chance of making progress, considering that five of the […]