The Nevada Gaming Control Board has approved an initial revision to Regulation 5.170(2) that would remove references to the National Council on Problem Gambling and replace them with problem-gambling resources based inside the state. The amendment cleared a workshop on Wednesday. The Nevada Gaming Commission takes it up on 22 October.
The proposal follows the NCPG's partnership with prediction market platform Kalshi. In May the two launched a two-year programme worth $2 million: the NCPG created a Financial Services & Trading subcategory and made Kalshi its first Platinum-level participant. The Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, the Michigan Gaming Control Board, the Ohio Casino Control Commission and the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling in Washington have since ended their NCPG memberships. NCPG executive director Heather Maurer resigned in late September. The NCPG says it holds a neutral position on the legal status of gambling and prediction markets.
'The updated reference will first direct those who need help to information about resources in Nevada itself,' said Cahn Lengsavath, head of tax and licensing at the NGCB. He said that approach fits the resources to state rules more closely. NGCB chairman Mike Dreitzer backed the revision and called removing the NCPG mention appropriate given recent events.
The amendment sits inside 12 pages of regulatory proposals. Others would lift the annual limit of two gaming devices for private sale, under Regulation 14.330(1), and change the licence surrender procedure at Regulations 9.010(2)(a)(2) and 9.010(2)(b)(2). Lengsavath said private device sales had caused no problems and the board would keep approving deals. Dreitzer said the agency would retain its monitoring and that he would be more comfortable with an annual cap on machine numbers. Caps of 40 or 50 devices sit above observed volumes, Lengsavath said, though he did not want to put an arbitrary figure forward.
