Tuesday saw Pennsylvania welcome its fifth online gambling bill, which proposes a hefty 54% tax on gross gaming revenue.

SB 900 was filed by Senator Kim Ward, with Joseph Scarnati, Robert Tomlinson and Elder Vogel listed as co-sponsors. While Pennsylvania has already welcomed four online gambling bills – three in favor, one opposed – SB 900 is the first to emerge from the Senate. This is either progress or a sign that senators were tired of the House sucking up all that lobbying cash.

SB 900, which contains a raft of proposals aimed at boosting the state’s overall gaming industry, allows for both online poker and casino games. As with the state’s other online bills, only the state’s existing casino licensees would be eligible to offer online gambling.

The bill doesn’t contain any explicit ‘bad actor’ prohibitions among its criteria for a licensee’s online technology partner. However, applicants would have to provide a “fictitious, brand or trade name” that they intend to use for their online operations, and said name must be “predominantly the same name that is utilized by the licensed gaming entity,” which appears to limit the use of established online brands.