Plowman: Policy Decisions to Make Updating Maine Gambling Laws
Maine lawmakers eye looser gambling laws including online lottery sales
January 17th, 2012 by admin
[M]embers of...Legislature’s Veterans/Legal Affairs Committee attended a...National Council of Legislators from Gambling States [meeting] earlier this month and...agree Maine needs to move swiftly to update its gambling laws....
[S]aid Sen. Plowman, R-Hampden. “There are so many changes.., policy decisions...to make.”
She said a [recent] US Justice Department ruling...dominated...the conference. The department reversed its [ban on] online gambling.., said state lotteries [aren’t] prohibited from offering [instate] online wagering....