June 24, 2015
Pennsylvania Assemblyman Adam Gray, who chairs the Assembly Government Organization Committee hearing later today (24 June) in California, has gathered together a formidable list of expert witnesses who will impart their knowledge during the afternoon session. Our readers can tune in to the audio stream on the hearing from 1.30pm Eastern Standard Time here: http://assembly.ca.gov/listen/4202-audio […]
June 4, 2015
Four Republican senators in Pennsylvania, led by state Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, are preparing to introduce legislation to allow Internet gambling, according to the publication Philly.com. The forthcoming bill was advertised Wednesday in a memo to fellow senators advising that the new measure will permit existing Pennsylvania casinos to offer Internet gambling. Players […]
June 2, 2015
Pennsylvanian Senator Sean Wiley’s draft proposal on gambling (see previous report) includes provisions for the regulation and licensing of online gambling, more details on which have become available this week. Wiley is focused on internet poker, and online casino gaming is excluded from his legalisation drive, which envisages fully regulated and licensed online poker available […]
April 8, 2015
Pennsylvania looks increasingly like the online poker legalisation hot spot at present, with this week seeing another bill introduced to the state House. The proposal, titled HB 920, comes from Representative Tina Davis, whom our readers will recall tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to achieve legalisation with an almost identical proposal that stalled in committee. Her […]
March 4, 2015
Keeping the political pot boiling in Pennsylvania this week, Representative Nick Miccarelli has re-introduced his online poker legalisation bill, which failed to make it in 2014. Now titled HB695, the bill reportedly has the same content as the original, although that has yet to be confirmed by full publication. If that is the case, then […]
February 27, 2015
Full details on Representative John Payne’s HB649 proposal to legalise online gambling within Pennsylvania’s borders have now become available (see previous report), and the disappointing news is that the measure covers only the legalisation of online poker. The full text of the Payne proposal can be accessed here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2015&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=649&pn=0748 Confining the scope of the bill […]
June 4, 2014
Senator Edwin Erickson’s soon-to-launch bill seeking to legalise online poker in Pennsylvania (see previous reports) is to be supported in the state Assembly by a similar bill sponsored by Republican Representative Nicholas Miccarelli. It is understood that both bills will include anti-competitive “bad actor” clauses barring operators like Pokerstars who continued to supply US services […]
June 1, 2014
With the next hearing on internet gambling legalisation in Pennsylvania scheduled for June 3 and already attracting media attention (see previous reports) the news emerged last Friday that a new Senate bill will soon be introduced seeking to regulate and license intrastate online poker. Pennsylvania Senator Edwin Erickson is the man behind the new bill […]
February 25, 2014
Pennsylvanian state Representative Mario Scavello made the headlines last week when he gave notice of his intent to introduce a state law criminalising players who use online poker and casino websites to gamble, but a Google Poll-powered study of 500 adult Pennsylvanians this week may give him pause for thought. Conducted by the independent poker […]