The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved regulations drafted by the Nevada Gaming Control Board that could make Nevada the first state to provide online gambling within its borders.
Earlier this year the Nevada state legislature passed legislation allowing for intrastate online gaming. In June, Governor Brian Sandoval, a former Nevada Gaming Commission Chairman, signed the legislation into law. Earlier this year, Washington, D.C., became the first U.S. jurisdiction to pass a law allowing online gambling played within its geographic limits, but the law has still not been implemented. Several other states have debated or introduced bills that would legalize online gambling within its borders.
The Nevada regulations would allow the state’s casinos to launch gambling websites for players within the state’s borders by the end of 2012. Six companies have already filed an application for a Nevada license. The main operator of the website must be a casino company, but other companies will be allowed to provide software or other services to the websites.
The regulations state that all bets received by the website must be placed within Nevada until federal law changes or the Justice Department states that bets may be accepted from outside the state.
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