BILL ANALYSIS ------------------------------------------------------------ |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 1090| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ UNFINISHED BUSINESS Bill No: SB 1090 Author: Cedillo (D) Amended: 8/17/10 Vote: 21 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE : 9-0, 3/23/10 AYES: Wright, Harman, Florez, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Price, Wyland, Yee NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Denham SENATE FLOOR : 32-0, 4/8/10 AYES: Aanestad, Ashburn, Calderon, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham, DeSaulnier, Ducheny, Dutton, Hancock, Hollingsworth, Huff, Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Romero, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg, Strickland, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee NO VOTE RECORDED: Alquist, Cogdill, Florez, Harman, Maldonado, Walters, Wiggins, Vacancy ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 8/18/10 - See last page for vote SUBJECT : Bingo: remote caller bingo SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill expands the kinds of organization s that may conduct remote caller bingo to include additional organizations that are exempt from the payment of taxes imposed under specified provisions of the Corporate Tax CONTINUED SB 1090 Page 2 Law. This bill also permits an organization to conduct remote caller bingo two days per week, and makes other conforming and technical changes. Assembly Amendments allow an organization to conduct remote caller bingo two days per week and expand the kinds of organizations that may conduct remote caller bingo. ANALYSIS : Existing law provides that the Legislature, by statute, may authorize cities and counties to allow for the play of bingo games, but only for charitable purposes. Existing law permits cities, counties, and cities and counties to allow remote caller bingo games to be conducted by specified tax exempt and nonprofit organizations for charitable purposes, subject to provisions of law which, if violated, constitute a crime. Existing law authorizes specified tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations that have been incorporated or in existence for three years or more and that are not organized for the primary purpose of operating bingo to conduct remote caller bingo games no more than one day per week. Existing law defines a "remote caller bingo game" as a game of bingo in which numbers or symbols on randomly drawn plastic balls are announced by a person present at the site at which the live game is conducted, and audio and video technology links in-state facilities for the purpose of transmitting the remote calling of a live bingo game from a single location to multiple locations. Existing law requires remote caller bingo games to be played using traditional paper or other tangible bingo cards and daubers, and shall not be played by using electronic devises, except card-minding devices. Existing law requires an authorized organization to provide the California Gambling Control Commission with at least 30 days advanced written notice of its intent to conduct remote caller bingo games, and submit specified information about the organizations, locations, vendors, and licensees involved in the operation of the games, as well as, a copy of the local ordinance for the counties in which the games SB 1090 Page 3 will be played. Existing law contains "permissive model ordinance" language which local jurisdictions may adopt to authorize remote caller bingo. This bill: 1. Allows an organization to file, along with its application to the local licensing official to operate a bingo game, "appropriate documentation" instead of "a certificate issued by the Franchise Tax Board" to demonstrate that the applicant is an eligible tax exempt organization authorized to operate a remote caller bingo game. 2. Increases the number of nights that a remote caller bingo contest would be conducted from one night to two nights a week, thus, placing the statute into conformity with the language contained in the model ordinance statute under existing law. 3. Makes relating technical changes. Comments According to the author's office: In 2008, the Legislature passed, and the Governor signed into law, SB 1369 which allows qualified non-profits to operate "remote caller" bingo games. Once SB 1369 was chaptered, technical errors and omissions were identified by the implementing state entity, the California Gambling Control Commission. Charities have also raised issues as they organize themselves to apply and conduct the game. The purpose of SB 1090 is to clean-up language and fine-tune implementation issues that have arisen as charities and local governments take steps toward authorizing and conducting the games. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No SB 1090 Page 4 Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 8/18/10) California Association of Nonprofits ASSEMBLY FLOOR : AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, Norby, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, John A. Perez NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, Charles Calderon, Evans, Furutani, Logue, Yamada, Vacancy TSM:nl 8/18/10 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END ****