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UPDATE: Louisiana Passes Bill for DFS: Write Reps to help pass Senate!
Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:47 pm
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Somebody won a prize playing fantasy football on FanDuel, a popular online fantasy sports website. And the person who contacted Lopinto was upset to learn he couldn't receive his T-shirt for reasons related to Louisiana's outdated laws.
Lopinto looked into it and found that legislation passed in 1997 -- at the dawn of Internet-related legislation -- creating the crime of gambling by computer essentially makes fantasy football, as we know it today, illegal.
"It has nothing to do with us outlawing fantasy football," Lopinto said, of the hobby's legal status. "(Our) antiquated law doesn't allow it."
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Lopinto has sponsored a House Bill 475 this legislative session, however, to carve out an exception to the gambling statute for "any fantasy or simulation sports game, educational game or contest."
If his legislation moves successfully through the Legislature -- which he assumes should happen without a problem -- fantasy sports players will no longer technically be on the hook for a $500 fine and six months in jail - the maximum penalty, according to the gambling statute.
Lopinto said he fashioned his legislation to mirror the same exemptions for fantasy sports carved out by the federal government in 2006, in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Full Article Nola.com
This post was edited on 5/18/15 at 12:54 pm
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Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:51 pm to Lester Earl
frick yeah
Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:54 pm to Lester Earl
Sweet. This should have been brought up years ago.
Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:57 pm to Chatagnier
Had I known it would be as easy as an email I would have done it 2 years ago lol
Posted on 4/17/15 at 2:57 pm to Lester Earl
Hell yeah
Posted on 4/17/15 at 5:53 pm to Lester Earl
curious what the other 4 states are
Posted on 4/17/15 at 6:00 pm to TigerintheNO
Arizona, Iowa, Montana, and Washington
Posted on 4/19/15 at 6:40 pm to Lester Earl
Outstanding
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:33 pm to Lester Earl
I read that this is going to a third reading and final passage. It is up for debate tomorrow. Does anyone know what this actually means as to the likelyhood of this being passed?
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:36 pm to hessmersaint
Me, Louie T, rondo, and Kashonly are marching the Capitol tomorrow if you want to join
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:38 pm to GynoSandberg
Really? I live too far away for that on short notice. I wish you guys the best. Do you think this will pass?
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:40 pm to hessmersaint
Posted on 5/5/15 at 5:55 pm to GynoSandberg
OK. Will do
Posted on 5/5/15 at 6:48 pm to hessmersaint
Has to be just a matter of time. DFS will overtake traditional fantasy sports in popularity within a few years. No reason for anyone to be left out.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 6:51 pm to GynoSandberg
I saw that the house passed it through today. It just needs to get through the Senate now.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:07 pm to GynoSandberg
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Me, Louie T, rondo, and Kashonly are marching the Capitol tomorrow if you want to join
thank you for all that you do
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:12 pm to Goldrush25
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DFS will overtake traditional fantasy sports in popularity within a few years.
shite, it may be there already. once yahoo and espn roll out DFS on their platforms it will be game over for traditional sports except for football
people are already scared of the length of nba and mlb fantasy seasons. daily games are perfect for those sports
Posted on 5/6/15 at 7:28 pm to GynoSandberg
I've been boozing pretty hard 
Hope I don't catch a DWI on the ride home.
Hope I don't catch a DWI on the ride home.
Posted on 5/7/15 at 5:28 am to hessmersaint
Good. Another thing I can become addicted too
The gov. Could make so much money taxing this and online poker it would be stupid for them not to
The gov. Could make so much money taxing this and online poker it would be stupid for them not to
Posted on 5/7/15 at 8:56 am to GynoSandberg
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it will be game over for traditional sports except for football
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people are already scared of the length of nba and mlb fantasy season
is this the demise of the TDxx leagues?
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