With Barney Frank expected to re-introduce legislation that would repeal the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Act, the U.S. House of Representatives financial services committee chairman could be getting support from an unlikely source.

According to reports, the state of Utah is strongly considering working with Rep. Barney Frank on the regulation push as Utah's attorney general Mark Shurtleff told The Salt Lake Tribune that he's in favor of Frank's proposal.

"[Online gambling] is going to happen anyway, let's put some regulation in place," explained Shurtleff, although the attorney general did also say that he was against tribal casinos and other types of gambling.

That's not to say that Utah is pro-online gambling however, as the eCommerce Journal says that the Beehive State is considering teaming with Frank to "protect people against the dangers of unregulated gambling on the Internet."

Although Frank has not yet given specifics on his UIGEA rollback, or at least the current form, it is thought that the proposal will include safeguards against underage and problem gamblers and cheating.

"Even though we outlawed it for two years now, it is still going on and it is highly unregulated, so you've got unscrupulous people rigging the system," Utah's attorney general said.

"People are getting ripped off."

There's no way, you know, right now if you go online and play poker—unless it's exactly head-to-head, peer-to-peer—that the games aren't rigged in a way that's going to make you lose," Shurtleff said in a separate report on KSL radio.

But could Utah be courting trouble with its support?

The state does not allow gambling in any form and if online gambling is allowed, so would tribal casinos—something that Shurtleff doesn't want.

The attorney general says he hopes the Frank proposl wouldn't allow for tribal gaming.