Lawmakers Reach Agreement on Mexico's New Gambling Legislation Giovanni Angioni - PokerNews
go to original November 7, 2014

After months of negotiations, Mexico's National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) reportedly found an agreement on the last details of the country's upcoming new gambling legislation.

Initially expected to be sent to the parliament by Sept. 20, the new law on gambling is set to create a brand new legal framework both for online and live gambling with the introduction of new measures against money laundering.

According to Mexico's local media, the new gambling law will bring the minimum age for gambling to 21 and will fight against money laundering by imposing some limitations to the so-called "mini casinos" — the unauthorized small gambling rooms that have flourished throughout the country during recent years.

The progress towards the introduction of the text to the country’s parliament was revealed by Deputy and former chairman of Mexico’s special commission on casinos Ricardo Mejia Berdeja, who said in an interview that legislators and representatives of the Federal Government have hammered out any remaining differences in a meeting held on Nov. 4.

Together with the two measures mentioned before, the new law is also supposed to offer operators a system of 10-year-long licenses, regulate online gambling, and establish a new Advisory Council composed of the secretaries of health, tourism, economics and government, as well as non-governmental organizations.

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