Texas lawmaker Gene Wu (D-Houston) told PokerNews in an interview that his intentions aren’t to ban poker in the state, but instead leave it up to individual counties to determine legality.

PokerNews, and other media outlets, reported last week that House Bill 732, sponsored by Wu, if passed, would close the loophole that allows poker rooms to operate under a social club model despite gambling being illegal in Texas. That information, as we’re told, was incorrect but it wasn’t the fault of the media.

“The reporting was correct based on what we had filed,” Wu said.

In Texas, poker rooms operate as membership clubs where players pay annual or monthly membership fees and daily or hourly seat fees to play. They do so because it would be unquestionably illegal for the business to take rake. Even so, there are many who believe the social club model is illegal based on the confusing wording of the law, which states that the gambling must occur in a “private place.”