California’s faint-hope online poker bill could be amended to make it more likely that Amaya Gaming’s PokerStars brand would be deemed ‘suitable’ for participation in the market.

On Tuesday, California gaming attorney David Fried (@calgaminglaw) posted proposed new amendments to AB 2863, the Assemblyman Adam Gray-sponsored legislation on which the state’s slender online poker hopes rest.

The amendments (viewable here), which have reportedly not yet been officially added to the bill’s text, aim to flesh out some of the bill’s known unknowns, including tax rates, license fees and a new benchmark for determining who is or isn’t a so-called ‘bad actor’.

The latter is the most notable among the amendments, proposing the adoption of a new unsuitability standard for any operator that accepted wagers from US residents after December 31, 2011. Most previous ‘bad actor’ clauses in other bills of this sort put this cutoff at December 31, 2006 to reflect the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act a few months earlier that year.