BILL NUMBER: AB 1916	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  600
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chesbro)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add Section 12012.95 to the Government Code, relating to
gaming.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1916, Hall. Tribal Gaming.
   Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988,
provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming
compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on
Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes
the Governor to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to
ratification by the Legislature.
   Existing law ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts
between the State of California and specified Indian tribes,
including the compact entered into between the State of California
and the North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians. Existing law
creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution
Fund and the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for the receipt
and deposit of moneys received by the state from Indian tribes
pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts and authorizes moneys in
those funds to be used for certain purposes.
   This bill would create the Tribal Nation Grant Fund in the State
Treasury, to be administered by the California Gambling Control
Commission, for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the
state from Indian tribes, pursuant to the terms of tribal-state
gaming compacts. This bill would authorize moneys in this fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for discretionary
distribution to nongaming tribes and limited gaming tribes for
purposes related to effective self-governance, self-determined
community, and economic development.



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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12012.95 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   12012.95.  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Tribal Nation Grant Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys
received by the state from Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of
tribal-state gaming compacts.
   (b) The Tribal Nation Grant Fund shall be administered by the
California Gambling Control Commission. Moneys in the fund shall be
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the
discretionary distribution of funds to nongaming tribes and limited
gaming tribes upon application of those tribes for purposes related
to effective self-governance, self-determined community, and economic
development.