For the 10th year in a row, legislation to regulate online poker was introduced in California.
Rather than being the culmination of momentum built over the past decade, the bill was entered without much fanfare or expectation by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer on Feb. 17, the last day for bills to be submitted this session.
The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act (AB 1677) is nearly identical to the one Jones-Sawyer introduced last session with Assembly Governmental Organization Committee chairman Adam Gray, whose glaring absence from this legislation foretells its prospects.