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State of Nevada Gets Approved for
Online Gambling Bill
As online casinos have
not been given an official US fate as of yet they are somewhere in a
gray area and are not really sure as to where they belong. The Wire Act
is the main issue involved in the illegalness of online casinos as
within it indirectly claims that gambling in online gaming or other
online gaming places is not allowed.
The US department of Justice is not interested in the legalization of
online gaming and they fear it will do more harm then anything else. The
state of Nevada in 2001 tried to pass a bill that would allow online
casinos to be played in but the home of land based casinos got rejected.
The state of Nevada has not given up as reports have come out that this
state has made a new bill, AB 471 which is attempting again to get
approved by the US Department of Justice. The AB 471 focuses more on
allowing the gamblers who come to Nevada to use wireless devises that
will allow them to access online casinos while in the presence of Nevada
land based casinos. Although this does not solve the problem of
legalizing online casinos it nevertheless does do some improvement for
Nevada’s access to online casinos.
This Bill passed in the senate 20 to 1 and became a law June 7, 2005.
More importantly, it may serve as precedence for future states that are
trying to legalize online casinos within their state. Nevada still has
not released any information on what specific online casinos their
gamblers will be marketed to use and if Nevada will establish heir own
online casinos that will mimic the land based ones. All plans right now
have not been finalized and are still in discussion.
This new bill marks a new perspective on online casinos and th4 general
public is wondering if this is only a Nevada thing or if online casinos
will be viewed more lightly all over the United States. Other states
have already attempted to legalize online casinos but have been turned
down by the US Department of Justice and other such legislators. Some
states did not even get to make it to any government hearing as the
justice Department stopped them right from the beginning. Online casinos
are of such interest to people because they generate big revenues and
every state wants a piece of the action.
It has been argued that legislators and some members of the public are
more concerned about the legalization of online casinos then land based
casinos because online casinos will be harder to regulate and more
difficult to tax. There is also a question if this new legalization of
the gambling wiring device will attract even more tourists to the really
popular State of Nevada. If there will be more of a market will it also
be filled with online gamers or the regular land based gamblers? All
such questions can only be answered in time by the State of Nevada.
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