BILL NUMBER: AB 66	CHAPTERED  06/27/01

	CHAPTER  23
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 27, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 27, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 21, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 5, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wesson

                        DECEMBER 7, 2000

   An act relating to the California Gambling Control Commission,
making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 66, Wesson.  California Gambling Control Commission:
appropriation.
   Existing law establishes the California Gambling Control
Commission to oversee and regulate gambling establishments in the
state.  The Budget Act of 2000 appropriated $576,000 from the
Gambling Control Fund for support of the California Gambling Control
Commission.
   This bill would appropriate $219,000 from the Gambling Control
Fund for support of the California Gambling Control Commission in
augmentation of the Budget Act of 2000.
   Existing law also establishes the Indian Gaming Special
Distribution Fund for the deposit of moneys received by the state
from Indian tribes pursuant to tribal-state gaming compacts.
   This bill would appropriate $1,131,000 from the Indian Gaming
Special Distribution Fund for support of the California Gambling
Control Commission.  This bill would also authorize the Controller to
loan the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund $1,131,000 from the
General Fund.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 19940 of the
Business and Professions Code, the sum of  two hundred nineteen
thousand dollars ($219,000) is hereby appropriated from the Gambling
Control Fund for expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year in
augmentation and for the purpose of the support of the California
Gambling Control Commission as provided in Item 0855-001-0567 of the
Budget Act of 2000.  Neither the Division of Gambling Control nor the
Gambling Control Commission shall duplicate the functions of the
other.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of one million  one hundred thirty-one thousand
dollars ($1,131,000) is hereby appropriated from the Indian Gaming
Special Distribution Fund for expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year
for the purpose of the support of the California Gambling Control
Commission.  In addition, the Controller is hereby authorized to
transfer the sum of one million  one hundred thirty-one thousand
dollars ($1,131,000) from the General Fund as a loan to the Indian
Gaming Special Distribution Fund.  This loan shall be repaid with
interest calculated at the rate earned by the Pooled Money Investment
Account at the time of the transfer.  Principal and interest on the
loan shall be repaid in full no later than June 30, 2003.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide the California Gambling Control Commission
with sufficient resources to perform its mandated duties, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.