Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has filed a bill in US Senate to ban online gambling in the country, but so far no details of the bill have been released.
The bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary where it could be debated, but at this point little more than the title of the bill is available.
According to the US Congress website, the bill aims “to ensure the integrity of laws enacted to prevent the use of financial instruments for funding or operating online casinos are not undermined by legal opinions not carrying the force of law issued by the federal government lawyers.”
The statement echoes the wording of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, a bill that was introduced by Senator Lindsay Graham and is backed by Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson. That bill takes issue with a US Department of Justice ruling in 2011 that cleared the way for three states—Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware—to begin online gambling.
That bill, however, has stalled in Congress and produced notable opposition.
The new bill’s precise meaning is unclear because it essentially hasn’t been written yet and Cotton has just filed a title as a placeholder before the Judiciary committee.
