After seven years of stagnation, online poker legislation finally received a positive vote in California on Monday. It's not as monumental as it seems, though.
Assemblyman Adam Gray's online poker framework bill's passage through the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee (GO) was more of a procedural move, as the bill needed to advance by May 1 to stay alive for the year. The legislation remains by and large an empty shell with language potentially to be filled in at a later date.
While the vote doesn't mean that interested parties in California are any closer to reaching the consensus likely needed for legislation truly to move forward, it does show a commitment to continue working on the issue.