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The proposed California law that would be the first step toward allowing online poker rooms in California made it through its first committee, and its sponsor, Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, hopes to see it lead to a law that would give the residents of his state a place to play online poker regulated by a governmental party in the United States.

The proposed law, which is the first of its kind in the nation on a state level, calls for the California Gaming Commission and the Attorney General’s Office to study the issues concerning “regulatory oversight and licensing, technological issues, underage and problem gambling matters, methods of play and types of games that may be legally offered, economic benefits to state and local governments, and the means by which those games and forms of gambling may be conducted and operated.”

Protecting California residents, Levine says, is the impetus driving his proposal.

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California Online Poker Law to Protect Residents

Author Contact Info: Bob Pajich

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