H.R.6870 - Payments System Protection Act of 2008

To ensure that implementation of proposed regulations under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, does not cause harm to the payments system, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)

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  • Official: To ensure that implementation of proposed regulations under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, does not cause harm to the payments system, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Popular: Payments System Protection Act of 2008 as introduced.
  • Short: Payments System Protection Act of 2008 as introduced.

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09/16/08
Internet Gambling Vote Looms In Congress - InformationWeek

US Online Poker News: Barney Frank’s HR 6870 Passes In Committee 4Flush.com Online Poker Moves One Step Closer To Acknowledgement of Legalization Casino Gambling Web House Committee Passes Bill to Clarify Pokerpages.com ...

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09/16/08
Update: Key Committee Approves Bill to Clarify Internet Gambling Ban

The Payments System Protection Act (HR 6870), approved yesterday by the House Committee on Financial Services, would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, in consultation with the Attorney General, ...

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09/16/08
HR6870 Payment System Protection Act Passed

... the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today issued the following statement upon passage of HR 6870, the “Payment System Protection Act,” by the House Financial Services Committee. ...

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09/16/08
Bush Administration Moving to Block Second Life and Other Online ...

Frank then offered up a vote on HR 6870, which also passed orally, but Bachus asked for a recorded roll call vote to take place. Because of the absence of many Committee members, the Financial Services Committee was forced to coordinate ...

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09/16/08
Barney Frank’s Fight to Legalize Online Poker in the US

As you’ve probably heard, Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank’s new bill, HR 6870, scored its first success yesterday as it cleared the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. So what’s that mean to us? ...

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09/16/08
Online Poker Moves One Step Closer To Acknowledgement of ...

Frank bill gets committe approval PartTimePoker News Barney Frank Online Gambling Bill Approved Online Poker Website New Frank Bill HR 6870 to Curb UIGEA Pokerpages.com PocketFives (press release) - CardPlayer.com all 21 news articles.

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09/16/08
Legislation Alert: Net Freedom

Our friends at Freedom Works are pushing for support of HR 6870 today. Read the full story on the bill here. Then, call the offices of Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in support of the bill. ...

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09/16/08
HR 6870-Payments System Protection Act of 2008

Barney Frank guided HR 6870-Payments System Protection Act of 2008 through its first step on the way to eventually (hopefully) becoming law with a 30-19 victory in the House Financial Services Committee. ...

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09/15/08
Wayne Brough : Don't Risk Innovation to a Bureaucratic ...

“The Payments System Protection Act of 2008” (H.R. 6870) makes clear that the law can be enforced against sports betting, which the courts have already said is illegal. It also requires the regulators to define exactly ...

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09/15/08
DCRepublican.com » Blog Archive » House Financial Services ...

By a vote of 30-19, the House Financial Services Committee passed a modified version of Chairman Barney Frank’s ‘Payment Systems Protection Act (HR 6870).’ This bill would essentially require the United States Treasury ...

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09/15/08
House Committee Concludes Online Sports Betting Should be Legal

In a hearing held today to mark up and vote on Bill HR 6870, which would clarify the UIGEA, many members of the House Financial Services Committee expressed pure wonderment as to why the major sports leagues have such power in governing ...

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09/15/08
Chance, skill and the law - Massively

One such is HR-6870, also known as the Payment Systems Protection Act. There's another, HR-2610, called the Skill Games Protection Act. Each of these tries, in its own way, to moderate the effect of various legislation so as not to ...

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09/15/08
legislation alert: net freedom

our friends at freedom works are pushing for support of hr 6870 today. read the full story on the bill here. then, call the offices of rep. jeb hensarling (r-tx) and rep. kevin mccarthy (r-ca) in support of the bill. ...

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09/15/08
house bill could gut gambling regulations

hr 6870 — the so-called payments system protection act of 2008 — purports to clarify uigea, but actually would undermine the current regulations. the house financial services committee, which is led by frank, is scheduled to vote on the ...

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09/15/08
Committee Approves Barney Frank’s HR 6870

In the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, HR 6870, the second version of Barney Frank’s Payments System Protection Act, was passed by a 30-19 vote. After initially being discussed and voted on orally, Republican Congressman ...

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09/15/08
Barney Frank’s HR 6870: Payments System Protection Act of 2008 ...

Today HR 6870 passed the House Financial Services Committee by a vote of 30-19. The text of HR 6870 is below. To sum it up, if this is passed into law, it will alter the UIGEA to specifically exclude poker from being covered and only ...

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09/15/08
dcrepublican has published a new blog post: Video: Payment Systems ...

dcrepublican has published a new blog post: Video: Payment Systems Protection Act (HR 6870) Markup.

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09/15/08
Vote is in: Committee approves Frank’s bill

During the markup process earlier today, a few members of the committee weighed in on the reintroduced version of the PSPA, now labeled HR 6870. Rep. Peter King (RN.Y.) commended Frank (D-Mass) for the changes he made to the bill to ...

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09/15/08
CUNA urges blocked list in UIGEA rules

The House Financial Services Committee late Tuesday passed an amended version of the Payment System Protection Act (HR 6870), a bill that would place a moratorium on the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ...

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09/15/08
House Financial Services Committee Passes ‘Payment Systems ...

Update: Video of today’s markup can be viewed here By a vote of 30-19, the House Financial Services Committee passed a modified version of Chairman Barney Frank’s ‘Payment Systems Protection Act (HR 6870).’ This bill would essentially .

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09/15/08
ONLINE POKER MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ...

Frank calculate gets committe support PartTimePoker News Barney Frank Online Gambling Bill Approved online pokerWebsite New Frank Bill HR 6870 to Curb UIGEA Pokerpages.com PocketFives (press release) - CardPlayer.com every 21 programme ...

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09/15/08
Committee Approves Barney Frank’s HR 6870

In the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, HR 6870, the second version of Barney Frank’s Payments System Protection Act, was passed by a 30-19 vote. After initially being discussed and voted on orally, Republican Congressman ...

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09/15/08
HR 6870 being marked up by US House Committee on Financial ...

HR 6870, the ‘Payment Systems Protections Act of 2008′, would prohibit the US Treasury and Federal Reserve from proposing, prescribing or implementing any regulations under UIGEA apart from those relating to sports betting, ...

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09/15/08
The Virtual Nanny State: HR 6870 to the Rescue

Barney Frank (D) introduced HR 6870 aka the Payment Systems Protection Act. The Act prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve from implementing regulations that do not pertain to wagering that is already banned by ...

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09/15/08
Key Congressional Committee Votes to Clarify Internet Gambling Ban

The Payments System Protection Act (HR 6870), approved today by the House Committee on Financial Services, would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, in consultation with the Attorney General, ...

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09/15/08
Barney Frank Bill Moves to Full House

The House Financial Services Committee today approved Barney Frank’s third installment of the Payment Systems Protection Act, HR 6870. The bill was accepted by a 30-to-19 vote. The new version of the payments protection act, ...

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09/15/08
Second Life Targeted for Shutdown as a "Game of Skill"?

The US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee hearings on HR 6870 today have some residents of Second Life concerned that the metaverse could become collateral damage in the war on online gambling, with suggestions that ...

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09/15/08
Poker Bill Passes Committee One step closer to undoing the UIGEA

Statement by PPA Chairman D’Amato on Passage of HR 6870. Washington, DC (September 16, 2008) – Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one ...

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09/15/08
Major UIGEA Development

This new bill HR 6870, which will be known as the Payment Systems Protection Act of 2008 blocks the US Treasury or Federal Reserve from legally enforcing any UIGEA regulation… “To the extent as any such regulation pertains to wagering ...

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09/15/08
[Press Release] Statement by PPA Chairman D'Amato on Passage of HR ...

[Press Release] Statement by PPA Chairman D’Amato on Passage of HR 6870 - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: [Press Release] Statement by PPA Chairman D’Amato on Passage of HR 6870 Statement by PPA Chairman ...

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