BILL NUMBER: AB 1039	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 19961.06 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to gaming.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1039, as introduced, Hall. Local gambling control.
   Under existing law, a city, county, or city and county may
authorize controlled gambling, consistent with state law, if a
majority of voters affirmatively approve an ordinance so permitting,
as specified. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and
county to amend the ordinance to increase by 2 the number of gambling
tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment in a city,
county, or city and county, above the number of tables authorized in
the ordinance in effect on January 1, 2010. The authority to amend a
gaming ordinance may occur only one time. Any amendment to a city or
county ordinance relating to gambling establishments or the Gambling
Control Act is required to be submitted to the Department of Justice
for review and comment before the ordinance is adopted by the city or
county.
   This bill, additionally, would provide that an amendment of an
ordinance increasing by 2 the number of gambling tables that may be
operated in a gambling establishment in a city, county, or city and
county, above the number of tables authorized by the ordinance in
effect on January 1, 2013, may occur only one time.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19961.06 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   19961.06.   (a)    Notwithstanding Sections
19961 and 19962, a city, county, or city and county may amend an
ordinance to increase by two the number of gambling tables that may
be operated in a gambling establishment in the city, county, or city
and county,  compared to   above the number of
tables authorized in  the ordinance that was in effect on
January 1, 2010. A city, county, or city and county may exercise the
authority provided by this  section  
subdivision  only one time, but this authority shall be in
addition to any authorization under any other law for a city, county,
or city and county to increase the number of gambling tables that
may be operated in a gambling establishment in the city, county, or
city and county. 
   (b) Notwithstanding Sections 19961 and 19962, and in addition to
the authorization granted by subdivision (a), a city, county, or city
and county may amend an ordinance to increase by two the number of
gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment in
the city, county, or city and county, above the number of tables
authorized in the ordinance that was in effect on January 1, 2013. A
city, county, or city and county may exercise the authority provided
by this subdivision only one time, but this authority shall be in
addition to any authorization under any other law for a city, county,
or city and county to increase the number of gambling tables that
may be operated in a gambling establishment in the city, county, or
city and county.