BILL NUMBER: SB 288	CHAPTERED  03/28/06

	CHAPTER  13
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MARCH 28, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  MARCH 28, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  MARCH 15, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 27, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 21, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Battin and Ducheny
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Benoit, Bogh, and Garcia)

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2005

   An act to amend Section 12716 of the Government Code, relating to
gaming, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 288, Battin   Gaming.
   (1) Existing law requires each county that administers grants from
the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to provide an annual
report to the Legislature by April 1 of each year, detailing the
specific projects funded by all grants in that county's jurisdiction.

   This bill would instead require that report to be provided by
October 1 of each year to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee, the chairpersons of the Senate and Assembly
committees on governmental organization, and the California Gambling
Control Commission. The bill would also make technical,
nonsubstantive changes to that provision of law.
   (2) Existing law authorizes funds within the Indian Gaming Special
Distribution Fund to be used to provide grants to local government
agencies impacted by tribal gaming, among other purposes.
   This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the Indian Gaming
Special Distribution Fund for grants for local government agencies,
as specified. The bill would also make a statement of intent that
this appropriation be used for workload associated with specified
Indian gaming compacts.
  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.  Section 12716 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   12716.  Each county that administers grants from the Indian Gaming
Special Distribution Fund shall provide an annual report to the
Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the
chairpersons of the Senate and Assembly committees on governmental
organization, and the California Gambling Control Commission by
October 1 of each year detailing the specific projects funded by all
grants in the county's jurisdiction in the previous fiscal year,
including amounts expended in that fiscal year, but funded from
appropriations in prior fiscal years. The report shall provide
detailed information on the following:
   (a) The amount of grant funds received by the county.
   (b) A description of each project that is funded.
   (c) A description of how each project mitigates the impact of
tribal gaming.
   (d) The total expenditures for each project.
   (e) All administrative costs related to each project, excluding
the county's administrative fee.
   (f) The funds remaining at the end of the fiscal year for each
project.
   (g) An explanation regarding how any remaining funds will be spent
for each project, including the estimated time for expenditure.
   (h) A description of whether each project is funded once or on a
continuing basis.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, in
augmentation of Item 0855-101-0367 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act
of 2005, to provide for grants to local government agencies pursuant
to Section 12715 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 3.  It is the intent of the Legislature that the funds
appropriated in Section 2 of this act be used for the workload
associated with compacts ratified pursuant to Section 12012.25 of the
Government Code.
  SEC. 4  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:
   It is necessary that local government agencies have immediate
access to the funds appropriated by this act in order to address the
impacts of tribal gaming.