Bill tabled in the House of Representatives that gambling on the Internet investigate
The bill Members Shelley Berkly (democrat, Nevada) brought the beginning of May a bill (HR 2140) in the House of Representatives, the National Research Committee of the National Academy of Sciences with a study on online gambling task. The study should be completed within twelve months of an appropriate response to the growth of the online gambling industry recommend. It will be the methods and techniques of other countries and international institutions in dealing with gambling on the Internet will be investigated. Moreover, the study should identify, where applicable federal, state and local law cover or overlap, and the impact of the UIGEA and the WTO decision-evaluated.
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During Berkley bluntly their disdain of the UIGEA said, it is now of the opinion that the new bill does not judgmental statement to the online gambling will deliver: “One of the advantages is that no party will be taken. The study does not say that online gambling is good or bad. She says, let us examine the issue. ” ”
The introduction of HR 2140, including Internet Gambling Study Act, was less than two weeks after Deputy Barney Frank (Democrat, Massachusetts) law on the regulation and enforcement of Internet gambling einbrachte. Frank sees Berkleys draft as complementary to its own law, and he also supports HR 2140th Other supporters of HR 2140, two members of the Republican Party. Dean Heller and Jon Porter, both from Nevada ..
The bill was for review forwarded to three committees (finance, justice, taxation and social affairs), where he gleichdenkende chairman on three hits. Barney Frank is chairman of the Finance Committee. John Conyers (Democrat, Michigan) is the chairman of the Justice Committee and co-sponsor of HR 2140th 2003 he brought the Internet Gambling Licensing and Regulation Act. Had this been adopted, would be a commission convened by the legalization of online gambling would be investigated. Charles B. Rangel (Democrat, New York) is chairman of the tax and Social Committee. Rangel voted last July against the UIGEA and is also a co-sponsor of HR 2140th