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                                                                  AB 820
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          Date of Hearing:   May 1, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                  AB 820 (Hall) - As Introduced:  February 21, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                              Governmental  
          Organization Vote:                            16 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill revises the definition of a key employee to any person  
          employed in the operation of a gambling enterprise in a  
          supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary  
          decisions with regard to the gambling operations. In addition,  
          the bill deletes the term pit boss and replaces the term shift  
          boss to shift manager. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation.  
           

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . This bill is intended to make clarifying and  
            simplifying changes to the act. By changing the definition of  
            key employee for example, the Gambling Control Commission now  
            has the authority to license anyone who has control over  
            gambling operations in card clubs. The deletion of the term  
            pit boss and change in the term shift boss is due to the fact  
            that those terms are generally used in Nevada casinos and not  
            in California's card clubs. 

           2)Related Legislation  . This language has been introduced  
            multiple times over the last several years in various bills.  
            Most recently, the language was in the introduced version of  
            AB 1418 (Committee on Governmental Organization) in 2011.   
            That bill was gutted and amended in the Senate to serve as a  
            ratification of a tribal compact. Previous bills containing  
            this language in their introduced versions were SB 1485  








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            (Wright) in 2010, SB 829 (Committee on Governmental  
            Organization) 2009, and SB 1664 (Yee) in 2008.  All of these  
            bills were gutted and amended into some other gambling related  
            legislation. 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081