BILL NUMBER: SCA 12	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  143
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 18, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Perata

                        MAY 21, 2007

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 19
of Article IV thereof, relating to the California State Lottery.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCA 12, Perata. California State Lottery.
   The California Constitution authorizes a California State Lottery,
and the California State Lottery Act of 1984, enacted by initiative,
provides for its operation and administration by the California
State Lottery Commission and the Director of the California State
Lottery, with certain limitations. The act declares that its purpose
is to provide additional moneys to benefit education.
   This measure would provide that an additional purpose of the
California State Lottery is to provide funds for other public
purposes. The measure would authorize the Legislature to obtain
moneys for the purposes of the California State Lottery through the
sale of future revenues of the California State Lottery and rights to
receive those revenues to an entity authorized by the Legislature to
issue debt obligations for the purpose of funding that purchase.



   Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly Concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2007-08 Regular Session
commencing on the fourth day of December 2006, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
    That Section 19 of Article IV thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 19.  (a) The Legislature has no power to authorize
lotteries, and shall prohibit the sale of lottery tickets in the
State.
   (b) The Legislature may provide for the regulation of horse races
and horse race meetings and wagering on the results.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Legislature by statute
may authorize cities and counties to provide for bingo games, but
only for charitable purposes.
   (d) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), there is authorized the
California State Lottery, a lottery to be conducted by the State and
operated for the purpose of increasing revenues to provide funds for
the support of public education and other public purposes.
   (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or this
Constitution to the contrary, the Legislature is hereby authorized to
obtain moneys for the purposes of the California State Lottery
through the sale of future revenues of the California State Lottery
and rights to receive those revenues to an entity authorized by the
Legislature to issue debt obligations for the purpose of funding that
purchase.
   (e) The Legislature has no power to authorize, and shall prohibit,
casinos of the type currently operating in Nevada and New Jersey.
   (f) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (e), and any other
provision of state law, the Governor is authorized to negotiate and
conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature, for
the operation of slot machines and for the conduct of lottery games
and banking and percentage card games by federally recognized Indian
tribes on Indian lands in California in accordance with federal law.
Accordingly, slot machines, lottery games, and banking and percentage
card games are hereby permitted to be conducted and operated on
tribal lands subject to those compacts.
   (g) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Legislature may authorize
private, nonprofit, eligible organizations, as defined by the
Legislature, to conduct raffles as a funding mechanism to provide
support for their own or another private, nonprofit, eligible
organization's beneficial and charitable works, provided that (1) at
least 90 percent of the gross receipts from the raffle go directly to
beneficial or charitable purposes in California, and (2) any person
who receives compensation in connection with the operation of a
raffle is an employee of the private nonprofit organization that is
conducting the raffle. The Legislature, two-thirds of the membership
of each house concurring, may amend the percentage of gross receipts
required by this subdivision to be dedicated to beneficial or
charitable purposes by means of a statute that is signed by the
Governor.