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Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Wednesday, 11 July 2007, at 10:18 p.m.

In Response To: Unlawful Internet Gambling Enformement Act - SPA (Steve Mellen)

There's a Congressional Research Service (US Library of Congress) report on H.R. 4954 at

http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/crs/RS22418_061002.pdf

I use http://www.law.cornell.edu and http://thomas.loc.gov/ once in a while to find laws or get lost in Chinese boxes of not up to date webpages. For Christmas I want a subscription to Westlaw ... and my own personal lawyer -- I read that there are over 1,000,000 lawyers in the US ... one won't be missed!

The full text of H.R. 4954 SAFE Port Act (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) is at

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:6:./temp/~c109E2DPxx::

The parts of interest to wild and crazy gamblers are Sections 801-803 and TITLE VIII--UNLAWFUL INTERNET GAMBLING ENFORCEMENT.

I'll quote just the first couple of paragraphs of Title VIII:

********************************************* Sec. 5361. Congressional findings and purpose

`(a) Findings- Congress finds the following:

`(1) Internet gambling is primarily funded through personal use of payment system instruments, credit cards, and wire transfers.

`(2) The National Gambling Impact Study Commission in 1999 recommended the passage of legislation to prohibit wire transfers to Internet gambling sites or the banks which represent such sites.

`(3) Internet gambling is a growing cause of debt collection problems for insured depository institutions and the consumer credit industry.

`(4) New mechanisms for enforcing gambling laws on the Internet are necessary because traditional law enforcement mechanisms are often inadequate for enforcing gambling prohibitions or regulations on the Internet, especially where such gambling crosses State or national borders.

`(b) Rule of Construction- No provision of this subchapter shall be construed as altering, limiting, or extending any Federal or State law or Tribal-State compact prohibiting, permitting, or regulating gambling within the United States.

`Sec. 5362. Definitions

`In this subchapter:

`(1) BET OR WAGER- The term `bet or wager'--

`(A) means the staking or risking by any person of something of value upon the outcome of a contest of others, a sporting event, or a game subject to chance, upon an agreement or understanding that the person or another person will receive something of value in the event of a certain outcome;

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