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      "date": "2001-01-11",
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      "title": "Internet Gambling: A Sketch of Legislative Proposals in the 106th Congress",
      "summary": "S. 692  (Sen. Kyl), as passed by the Senate, and  H.R. 3125  (Rep.\nGoodlatte), as brought to the House floor on a suspension motion, would have outlawed commercial\nuse of the Internet to gamble or to facilitate gambling, with fairly broad exceptions for certain forms\nof legalized gambling. Individual bettors were not covered and there were exemptions for\nparimutuel betting on horse racing and dog racing, and for state lotteries, among others. Violations\nwere subject to criminal penalties and court injunctions. Service providers who cooperated with\nauthorities in good faith enforcement of the Act were immunized for their cooperation and for\nviolations occurring through use of their facilities. Both bills left intact the Wire Act which\nproscribes use of the telephone facilities to gamble and transmit gambling information.\n  H.R. 5020  (Rep. Conyers) would have amended the Wire Act so as to resolve\ndisputes over its coverage of Internet gambling and otherwise. The bill had no explicit exceptions\nfor parimutuel gambling or state lotteries.\n  H.R. 4419  (Rep. Leach) , as reported out of the House Committee on Banking and\nFinancial Services ( H.Rept. 106-771 ), would have prohibited gambling businesses from accepting\nbettors' credit cards, electronic fund transfers, or checks, in connection with illegal internet\ngambling, and established criminal, civil, and regulatory mechanisms for enforcement of its\nproscriptions.\n None of these proposals were enacted during the 106th Congress. \n The Justice Department appropriation legislation, did included a section (\u00bf629) subsequently\nenacted and drafted to clarify the legality of the use of interstate communications in connect with off-\ntrack parimutuel gambling, 144  Cong.Rec.  H12481 (daily ed. Dec. 15, 2001).",
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