Californian State Senator Lou Correa is looking to push through his bill to regulate online poker by updating it as an urgency statute, meaning it would immediately come into effect if it is approved by two-thirds of both houses of the State Legislature.
Explaining the decision to make Senate Bill 678 an urgency statute, Correa explained in the bill’s text that it was necessary for the act to take effect “immediately” in order to “ensure that [...]