BILL NUMBER: AB 230	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Waldron

                        FEBRUARY 4, 2015

   An act to amend Section 19803 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to gambling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 230, as introduced, Waldron. Gambling.
   Existing law, the Gambling Control Act, provides for the licensure
and regulation of various legalized gambling activities and
establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission and the
investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments
by the Department of Justice. Existing law declares the intent of the
Legislature in enacting the act to provide uniform, minimum
standards for the regulation of permissible gambling activities and
the operation of lawful gambling establishments. Existing law
provides that nothing in those licensing and regulatory provisions
precludes a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a
gambling activity, or affects the responsibility of local law
enforcement agencies to enforce the laws of this state.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19803 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19803.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this
chapter, to provide uniform, minimum standards  of 
 for the  regulation of permissible gambling activities and
the operation of lawful gambling establishments.
   (b) Nothing in this chapter  shall be construed to
preclude any   precludes a  city, county, or city
and county from prohibiting  any   a 
gambling activity,  from  imposing more stringent
local controls or conditions upon gambling than are imposed by this
chapter or by the commission,  from  inspecting
gambling premises to enforce applicable state and local laws, or
 from  imposing  any   a 
local tax or license fee, if the prohibition, control, condition,
inspection, tax, or fee is not inconsistent with this chapter.
Nothing in this chapter  shall be construed to affect
  affects  the responsibility of local law
enforcement agencies to enforce the laws of this state, including
this chapter.