Mexico City - The proposal to reform Mexico's gambling regulations will be introduced to the country's House of Representatives on September 9, 2014.

"The work is almost over," Miguel Angel Ochoa Sanchez, the President of the Association of Licensees, Operators and Suppliers of Gaming and Entertainment in Mexico (AIEJA) said in an interview with Mexico's El Universal. "[The bill] will be introduced to the Chamber of Deputies on September 9 and it will be approved by September 20th."

The existing laws are silent on online gambling, having been in place since 1947.

According to industry rumors, the new gambling reform is expected to raise the minimum age to play in brick-and-mortar casinos to 21, offer operators a system of 10-year long licenses, regulate online gambling, and establish a new Advisory Council composed of the secretaries of Health, Tourism, Economics and Government, as well as non-governmental organizations.

Commenting on the reform, the President of the Commission of Gaming in the Chamber of Deputies, Fernando Zarate Salgado, stated, "the new law is going to put some order in the gambling world by regulating it and fixing some issues we have now."

According to the AIEJA President, the reform is going to receive a unanimous vote from the Mexican House of Representatives as it is generally believed that it will help make the industry much more stable and transparent than it is today. However, there will be a licensing process, and there will be new gaming taxes on online poker.

"It's a very ambitious project," Ochoa Sanchez said referring to the changes that the reform should bring to the current system in place.

Although Zarate Salgado admitted that the bill to be introduced to the House of Representatives on September 9 may be modified before its official approval, he believes that it will be voted on by "99 percent of Mexico's deputies."