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Word broke on Friday across the online poker world that United States Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) introduced HR 6663, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Clarification and Implementation Act of 2008. As the name implies, its purpose is to diagnose exactly what should be deemed legal and illegal under the UIGEA. Backed by three high-powered Congressmen as co-sponsors, all Democrats, HR 6663 represents the need for clarification to the law that was ushered through Congress and attached to the SAFE Port Act back in 2006. With Congress currently in an August recess, discussion on HR 6663 will not occur in the House Judiciary Committee until September at the earliest.

The bill describes one of the major ambiguities of the UIGEA, whether online poker and games like online blackjack are legal within the United States: “Federal Internet gambling prosecutions have involved sports betting, creating a lack of authoritative court decisions on the applicability of other federal criminal statutes to Internet poker and casino-style gambling.” HR 6663 seeks to take aim at sports betting outlets like Bet On Sports and Bodog, which has both an online poker room and sports book. Bodog has recently also come under fire from the U.S. Government, which seized $24 million of its assets in American banks.

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Pete Sessions Introduces HR 6663 to Clarify UIGEA

Author Contact Info: Dan Cypra, Poker News Daily

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