In what's been a yearly tradition for about a decade now, the latest attempt to push an online poker bill through the California legislature has begun.
California Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer introduced this year's effort, AB1677, on Friday.
Last year saw perhaps the most promising push yet toward legalized, regulated online poker in the nation's most populous state. Assemblymember Adam Gray's bill worked through issues with the California horse racing industry that had long been a sticking point for internet poker regulations. Gray outlined a $60 million subsidy for the industry that would come out of online poker revenues.