Casino City Staff
NEW JERSEY -- Assemblyman Ralph. R. Caputo yesterday introduced Bill # 3894 which will require Internet gaming affiliates to be licensed as casinos and prohibits the waiver of licensing requirements.
Caputo's bill will streamline licensing to ensure online casinos will be subjected to the same licensing scrutiny as land-based casinos.
The text of the bill explains in its statement that "This bill requires each Internet gaming affiliate conducting Internet gaming in partnership with an Atlantic City casino to be licensed as a casino"
The bill statement outlines the timeline as "The bill provides that, within 30 days of its effective date, the Casino Control Commission and the Division of Gaming Enforcement must notify each Internet gaming affiliate operating in this State of the licensing requirements. Any Internet gaming affiliate which is not in compliance with the licensing requirements on the bill’s effective date would be required to be licensed within one year. Following the expiration of that one-year period, an Internet gaming affiliate which has failed to be licensed would not be eligible to continue operating in this State."
The Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee voted 7-0 in favour of supporting Bill 3894 yesterday.