WEBMASTER WORLD
Minnesota
New York
Wisconsin
Vermo
Michigan
Washington
Montana
Maine
North
Dakota
Oregon
Vermont
Michigan
Minnesota
Idaho
New
Hampshire
South
Dakota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Wyoming
Nebraska
Nevada
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Colorado
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Ohio
New Mexico
North Carolina
Indiana
South
Carolina
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Missouri
Michigan: Green
Regulated gaming type: online lottery
Arkansas
Operator
type: Michigan Lottery monopoly
Go-live date: soft launched
in August
Mississippi
2014. In April, State Senator Mike
Kowall also introduced igaming
legalisation
and regulation bill SB 889.
Louisiana
State Rep Brandt Iden subsequently
introduced a House bill in September
aimed at resolving some of the issues
raised by Kowall’s bill among the state’s
gaming tribes. For example, making it
clear that their compacts would need to
be renegotiated in order to offer igaming.
With the House Regulatory Reform
Committee not scheduled to meet any
District of
Columbia
Georgia
Mary
Louisiana
Texas
West
Virginia
Maryland: Green
Regulated gaming type: online lottery
Operator type: Maryland Lottery monopoly
Go-live date: no further updates.
The Maryland Live! Casino launched
a free-to-play online casino in 2014 to
build awareness and a database.
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Hawaii
Maryland
Oklahoma
Arizona
Illinois
New Jersey
Delaware
West
Virginia
Kansas
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Iowa
Utah
California
New York
time soon,
however, any movement
Kentucky
on the bills looks unlikely during this
current session.
Florida
16%. The state lottery will now also be
able to sell tickets online.
North Carolina
California: Red
Present status: no action taken on
Assembly member Reggie Jones-
Sawyer’s AB-1677 before end of session
on 15 September, 2017. Jones-Sawyer’s
bill would South
have allowed tribes and
cardrooms
to apply for $12.5m poker
Carolina
licences valid for seven years.
Tennessee
Pennsylvania:
Green
Present status: became the fourth state
to fully legalise online gambling after
Governor Tom Wolf signed an expansive
gambling package into law at the end
of October. The legislation allows for
the regulation of online poker, slots and
table games within the state’s boundaries.
New York: Red
Pennsylvania’s existing commercial
Georgia
Present status: identical online poker
casinos will now be able to apply for a
regulation bills were introduced in the
new online gaming licence and begin
Alabama
NY Senate and House in January and
offering services to gamers via desktop,
February, respectively. Senate Bill S3898
mobile and tablet devices. Licences will
be priced at $10m each, although if some passed out of the senate in June, but the
House failed to act before the end of the
of these are not claimed after the initial
session. Senator John Bonacic and
roll-out, they will then be offered at a
Assembly member J Gary Pretlow’s bills
lower price of $4m for certain market
were amended to include a “bad actor”
segments. Pennsylvania plans to tax
clause barring operators that took bets in
online slots at a rate of 54% and internet
the state after UIGEA.
table games and poker face a rate of
Florida
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