Archive for January, 2006
Jan
15
Youth gambling ban? Lawmakers mull raising threshold to 21
Posted by: | Comments DAVID AMMONS ,AP Political Writer, source http://ap.org/
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Problem gambling activists, concerned about teen gambling and a television-promoted poker craze, are pushing legislation to lift the gambling age from 18 to 21, to match the legal drinking age.
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, and Rep. Mary Helen Roberts, D-Edmonds, introduced legislation in both houses on [...]