BILL NUMBER: AB 1217	CHAPTERED  09/05/01

	CHAPTER  254
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 21, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 18, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Briggs

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add Section 19835.6 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to gaming.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1217, Briggs.  Gambling establishments.
   Existing law permits the California Gambling Control Commission to
make a list of persons who licensees are to exclude or eject from
their gambling establishments.  Existing law also permits a licensee
to exclude various persons, as specified, from their licensed
premises.
   This bill would grant immunity from civil liability for a mistake
as to the grounds for ejecting or excluding a person to gambling
establishments that exclude or eject an individual from their
premises, if the ejection or exclusion was based on a reasonable and
good faith belief, after a reasonable investigation, that they may do
so under the law.  The bill would provide, however, that a gambling
establishment shall not be relieved from liability for any damages
arising from the means of ejection or exclusion.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 19835.6 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   19835.6.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and
except as provided in subdivision (b), no gambling establishment that
ejects or excludes an individual based upon Section 19835A or
19835.5A shall be subject to civil liability for a mistake as to the
grounds for ejecting or excluding a person if the ejection or
exclusion was based upon a reasonable and good faith belief, after a
reasonable investigation, that these sections applied to the
individual in question.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a gambling establishment
shall not be relieved from liability for any damages arising from the
means of ejection or exclusion.