Amended in Senate August 12, 2013

Amended in Assembly May 8, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1042

Introduced by Assembly Member Hall

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 12713 of the Government Code, relating to tribal begin delete gaming. end delete begin insert gaming, and making an appropriation therefor. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1042, as amended, Hall. Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund.

Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used for specified purposes, including for grants for the support of state and local government agencies impacted by tribal government gaming. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for those grants to local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the current budget year for the local government agencies.

This bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate and provide a recommendation regarding the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the current budget year for the local government agencies. The bill would require the department, in making its recommendation, to consider any anticipated revenue from additional tribal gaming operations. The bill would additionally require the department to include certain information with the recommendation, including, among other things, the total amount of payments projected to be received into the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund during the current budget year, as specified, and the amount of appropriations made begin insert each budget year end insert in the previous 10 years from the fund for local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming pursuant to certain tribal-gaming compacts.

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This bill would appropriate $13 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission to provide grants to local agencies for the 2013-14 fiscal year, as described above.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 12713 of the Government Code is
amended to read:

12713.  

(a) The Department of Finance, in consultation with
the California Gambling Control Commission, shall calculate and
provide a recommendation regarding the total revenue in the Indian
Gaming Special Distribution Fund that will be available for the
current budget year for local government agencies impacted by
tribal gaming. The department, in making its recommendation,
shall consider anticipated revenue from any additional tribal
gaming operations.

(b) The following information shall be included with the
recommendation described in subdivision (a):

(1) The total amount of payments projected to be received into
the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund during the current
budget year in accordance with tribal-gaming compacts ratified
pursuant to Section 12012.25.

(2) The total amount of payments received into the Indian
Gaming Special Distribution Fund during the previous budget year
in accordance with tribal-gaming compacts ratified pursuant to
Section 12012.25.

(3) The total number of tribes that make payments into the
Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund in accordance with
tribal-gaming compacts ratified pursuant to Section 12012.25.

(4) The name of each tribe that makes payments into the Indian
Gaming Special Distribution Fund in accordance with
tribal-gaming compacts ratified pursuant to Section 12012.25.

(5) The amount of appropriations made each budget year in the
previous 10 years from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution
Fund for local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming
pursuant to Section 12012.85.

(c) The department shall include the information required by
this section in the May budget revision.

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begin insert The amount of thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000)
is hereby appropriated from the Indian Gaming Special
Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission
to provide grants to local agencies pursuant to Section 12715 of
the Government Code for the 2013- end insert begin insert 14 fiscal year. end insert