S.C. Senators Advance Bills to Allow Gambling

Poker Players in South Carolina received a bit of good news yesterday, May 12, 2009. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would revise the state’s 207-year-old gambling laws, which ban games of cards and/or dice.

Senators said their goal was to let people play Monopoly, Bridge, or no-to-low-stakes poker with family and friends without creating unintended consequences such as those that led to video poker’s rise.

The next move is for the bills to move to the full Senate. But with just five legislative days left on the calendar, it hardly has a chance of passing this year.

At the moment the South Carolina gaming laws are enforced haphazardly, it all really depends on the law enforcement agency and whether someone complains, something Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell called “just flat wrong.”

One of the measures which was approved by a vote of 12-8, would allow folk to gamble privately in their homes as long as there’s no house odds or profits for the house. It would also allow nonprofits to hold six-hour casino-night fundraisers twice a year, as long as there are no slot machines or video games. 90 percent of all money raised when doing so must go to charity.

Here at Carolina Gambler we’ll be doing our best to stay on top of the progress being made and will let readers know as soon as we know more.

Source – South Carolina/AikenStandard.com

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