Update: California Senate Lets Wright Bill Go Through

May 30, 2012
Update: California Senate Lets Wright Bill Go Through
SB1390 approved on a 32-2 vote This week saw the US state of California push sports betting legalization move forward when the state Senate approved Sen. Rod Wright's Bill SB1390 by 32 to 2 vote. The bill, which would allow operators already holding gambling licenses in California, including casinos and horse-racing tracks, to get a state permit to provide sports betting, is now sent to the House for further consideration. Wright expressed expectation that the federal government will eventually change the federal Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act that prohibits all but four states from allowing sports betting. According to him, the measure "...will get California in a forward motion on something going on in other parts of the country.'' And since many Californians bet on professional and college sports contests either illegally in the state or through sports betting operations in Nevada, Wright also commented: "We receive absolutely no money from it," adding that the state's cut of sports betting could involve "a great deal of money." So far, the bill has encountered opposition from the California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion, the California Police Chiefs Assn. and USC.
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