New Hampshire Tries Another Casino Bill

After failing to pass in May, a revised bill is due to be resubmitted on December 15.

Key Takeaways

Today, the New Hampshire Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority (GROA) should finalize its draft of a bill to regulate casinos in order to file recommendations by December 15.
The new bill’s sponsor, Rep. Robert Elliott, (R-Salem), has announced that proposed casino regulation will be tough: “Even the pope would have difficulty getting a license from the state of New Hampshire.”
Substantial opposition to gambling indicates that a bill to legalize online gaming in the “Live Free or Die” state looks a very distant prospect.

The New Hampshire Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority (GROA) should finalize its draft of a bill Friday to regulate casinos, in order to file recommendations by December 15.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on December 06, 2013.

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