Recent suggested changes to Assembly Bill 5 drafted by the control board has Nevada looking at a gaming bill that would allow intrastate wagers with similar interactive gaming laws.
The draft bill was submitted to the Legislature as Gaming Control Board wants to amend interactive gaming regulatory language that would allow Nevada’s governor to enter agreements with other states that legalize Internet poker.
Allowing Nevada Internet poker websites to accept bets from gamblers within states that have similar laws would initially increase the player size pool.
Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett, stated it is “beneficial to Nevada because Congress has not enacted federal legislation to legalize Internet poker.” “The need to make clear the governor’s ability, should he choose to negotiate such agreements, was paramount,” Burnett said. “I don’t know if there are specific negotiations right now.”
Currently, there are 17 licensed gaming operators and technology providers under the state’s interactive gaming regulations that were approved last year with Interactive poker websites possibly launching in Nevada by the spring.
Since the death of the Reid/Kyle bill in December, Kyle has since retired and the focus has shifted for federal Internet poker legalization to a state-by-state legislation.
NJ Gov. Chris Christie has until Feburary 3rd, to yay or nay on the legislation which would allow the acceptance of the states residents to play casino games and poker online as well as players outside the state if it is determined legal.
Christie has been “mulling” over signing off or vetoing the bill for over a year stating,
“I think [New Jersey] should be an epicenter for [the Internet gaming] business, but I want to do it right — I do not want to rush and get legislation that either doesn’t pass state constitutional muster, or creates other problems for us,” he said.
Last December Macquarie Securities gaming analyst Chad Beynon stated that, “as more states adopt online gaming regulations, it will become less likely that federal online poker bill will make it through Congress.”
Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman AG Burnett told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “The need to make clear the governor’s ability, should he choose, to negotiate such agreements, was paramount. I don’t know if there are specific negotiations right now. “We wanted to make sure the authority was there, however, to add more options in order to help the state.”
Until a federal legislation authorizing interactive gaming is passed or approved by the US Dept of Justice, Nevada will have to wait as the bill has been referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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