As promised, Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer introduced an online poker bill to be considered during California’s 2015 legislative session.

The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015 is the second online poker bill proposed in the state in as many months, and looks to be a bit more palatable to California’s gaming interests as a whole than the measure volleyed by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (AB 9) in December. Racetracks are allowed to participate along with cardrooms and Indian tribes in Jones-Sawyer’s measure (AB 167), while horsemen had been scratched from the program under the Gatto-sponsored bill.

The latest proposal contains no specific “bad actor” clause, which also differs from the bill introduced last month. But AB 167 does include language that may exclude PokerStars by prohibiting those who have “contemptuously defied a legislative investigative body” of any state, the U.S., or jurisdictions in foreign lands “when that body is engaged in the investigation of crimes relating to poker ….”

Parties involved getting closer?