BILL NUMBER: AB 701	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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  10   12  members.
The committee shall be composed of  five  representatives of
controlled gambling  licensees and   licensees,
five  members of the general  public in equal numbers.
  public, and two members from the department.  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.