California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 701

Introduced by Assembly Member Cristina Garcia

February 25, 2015

An act to amend Section 19817 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to gaming.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 701, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Gaming: Gaming Policy Advisory Committee.

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 requires the commission to establish a 10-member Gaming Policy Advisory Committee for the purpose of discussing matters of controlled gambling regulatory policy and other relevant gambling-related issues. The committee is composed of representatives of controlled gambling licensees and members of the general public in equal numbers.

This bill would increase the membership of the committee from 10 to 12 members, and would instead require the committee to be composed of 5 representatives of controlled gambling licensees, 5 members of the general public, and 2 representatives from the Department of Justice.

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 19817 of the Business and Professions
Code is amended to read:

19817.  

The commission shall establish and appoint a Gaming
Policy Advisory Committee of begin delete 10 end delete begin insert 12 end insert members. The committee
shall be composed of begin insert five end insert representatives of controlled gambling
begin delete licensees and end delete begin insert licensees, five end insert members of the general begin delete public in equal
numbers. end delete begin insert public, and two members from the department. end insert The
executive director shall, from time to time, convene the committee
for the purpose of discussing matters of controlled gambling
regulatory policy and any other relevant gambling-related issue.
The recommendations concerning gambling policy made by the
committee shall be presented to the commission, but shall be
deemed advisory and not binding on the commission in the
performance of its duties or functions. The committee may not
advise the commission on Indian gaming.