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Internet Gambling Prohibition Bill Passed
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes April 07, 2000
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation to outlaw most forms of Internet gambling, including in the bill an amendment that would prohibit states from conducting lotteries online.
In a 21-8 vote, the Judiciary committee passed an amendment in the nature of a substitute to the initial bill offered by Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., H.R. 3125 - the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. While the bill would outlaw most Internet gambling, it contains carve- outs that allow closed-loop betting on parimutuel activities such as dog racing, horse racing and jai alai. The bill also contains liability provisions for ISPs that absolve them from prosecution if they or law enforcement discover that illegal gambling operations are running on their servers.
Under the bill, convicted online gambling purveyors could be fined $20,000, or the amount of a particular bet in question, or sent to prison for up to four years, or some combination of those penalties.
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The bill also contains a clause that absolves ISPs from liability if illegal offline gambling advertising is run on their services, and also allows ISPs to run offline gambling advertisements when they advertise legal gambling establishments. ISPs under the clause, however, would be required to offer filtering services.
The Senate passed a somewhat different Internet gambling ban at the end of 1999, which must now be reconciled with the House version in conference committee.
Reported by Newsbytes.com