Online poker was not discussed at Wednesday's California Assembly Governmental Organization Committee hearing, as Assemblymen Mike Gatto and Reggie Jones-Sawyer both opted to remove their bills from the agenda.
Gatto indicated that he was not moving forward with his bill at this point because of the lack of a consensus among the state's gaming stakeholders. This was the last of the online poker hearings scheduled in California this year, and it's unlikely a hearing will be added in the remaining months of the session unless significant and unexpected progress is made to break the stalemate on the issue of a bad-actor clause and particularly the participation of racetracks.