With regulated online gambling happening on their borders Pennsylvanians get a boost after The Reading Eagle announces a bill to regulate online gambling in the state will get airtime in June.

Those interested in the legalisation of online gambling in Pennsylvania will be delighted to hear that the bill looking to provide the framework for that to happen (HB 649) is likely to hit a table housed by the Full House of Representatives in June.

The Reading Eagle broke the news on Monday aligning the urgency with the need to close a budget deficit of $1 billion dollars so lawmakers don’t have to turn to the states incumbents to make up the difference. One assumes the author was talking about the work that begins in July for the 2016/17 budget after Gov. Tom Wolf allowed the 2015/16 budget to pass without his signature after nine months of arduous debate.

HB 649’s author Rep. John Payne prefers to talk about the legalisation of online gambling being necessary, not to add money to the state’s coffers, but instead to protect ‘children’ and ‘compulsive gamblers’ from an environment that’s already contains an illegal online gambling industry.