Virginia Senate Bill 849 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2011 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-01-19 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Illegal gambling; poker a game of skill. Clarifies that poker games are deemed games of skill and nothing in the definition of illegal gambling shall be construed to make any poker game illegal. The bill defines "poker game" as any of several card games in which a player bets that the value of his hand is greater than that of the hands held by others, in which each subsequent player must either equal or raise the bet or drop out, and in which the player holding the highest hand at the end of the betting wins the prize, stake or other consideration, or thing of value.

Illegal gambling; clarifies that poker games are deemed games of skill and are not illegal.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2011-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-19		Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
2011-01-11		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2011-01-07		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-07		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102096D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	325	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SB849
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB849+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S03V0030+SB0849