Nevada Bill To Limit Online Gaming Compacts To Just Poker Advances To Senate CommitteeProposal Passes Assembly By 23-17 Margin |
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On Friday, members of Nevada’s Assembly passed AB 414, a Sheldon Adelson-backed proposal to limit online gaming compacts with other states to just web poker.
The vote was pretty close: 23 were in favor, while 17 were against and two abstained.
The bill, which was introduced on Mar. 19, has been moving swiftly through the Silver State legislature. It now sits in a Senate committee.
According to Chris Krafcik of GamblingCompliance, the bill has a deadline of May 15 to move out of the committee.
Nevada only has online poker, and not Internet house-banked games. Delaware, which is Nevada’s I-gaming partner for liquidity sharing, has peer-to-peer poker and other traditional casino games on the web. New Jersey, the third state in the country with online casino gaming for real money, doesn’t have a compact with either Nevada or Delaware.
A liquidity sharing compact between Nevada and Delaware became official when governors of both states signed the agreement last year. However, it took nearly a year for it to be implemented.
Adelson’s efforts to get AB 414 passed can be seen as him hedging his bets. He is also pushing a sweeping federal ban on online poker dubbed “the Restoration of America’s Wire Act.” That bill faces long odds of becoming law this year.
Here’s a look at the bill that passed the Assembly:
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