SB 650,
as amended, Hall. begin deleteGambling licenses: annual renewal. end deletebegin insertCalifornia Gambling Control Commission: records.end insert
Existing law, the Gambling Control Act, establishes the California Gambling Control Commission. Existing law requires the commission to keep a record of all proceedings at its regular and special meetings and a record of all applications for licenses under the Gambling Control Act, and to make these records open to public inspection.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would require the commission to make these records open to public inspection during normal business hours.
end insertThe Gambling Control Act provides for the licensure and regulation of various legalized gambling activities by the California Gambling Control Commission and the investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments by the Department of Justice. Existing law requires a gambling license to be renewed biennially. Existing law requires the owner licensee or key employee to file an application for renewal with the Department of Justice no later than 120 calendar days before the expiration of the current license. A willful violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.
end deleteThis bill would require the owner licensee or key employee to file an application for renewal with the California Gambling Control Commission by no later than 120 calendar days after the end of the owner licensee’s fiscal year. The bill would automatically renew a license annually upon the payment of an annual renewal fee, as specified. The bill would also make conforming changes. Because a willful violation of these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
end deleteThe California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
end deleteThis bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
end deleteVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteyes end deletebegin insertnoend insert.
State-mandated local program: begin deleteyes end deletebegin insertnoend insert.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 19821 of the end insertbegin insertBusiness and Professions
2Codeend insertbegin insert is amended to read:end insert
(a) The commission shall cause to be made and kept
4a record of all proceedings at regular and special meetings of the
5commission. These records shall be open to publicbegin delete inspection.end delete
6begin insert inspection during normal business hours.end insert
7(b) The department shall maintain a file of all applications for
8licenses under this chapter. The commission shall maintain a record
9of all actions taken with respect to those applications. The file and
10record shall be open to publicbegin delete inspection.end deletebegin insert
inspection during normal
11business hours.end insert
12(c) The department and commission may maintain any other
13files and records as they deem appropriate. Except as provided in
14this chapter, the records of the department and commission are
15exempt from disclosure under Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
16Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code.
17(d) Except as necessary for the administration of this chapter,
18no commissioner and no official, employee, or agent of the
19commission or the department, having obtained access to
20confidential records or information in the performance of duties
21pursuant to this chapter, shall knowingly disclose or furnish the
22records or information, or any part thereof, to any person who is
23not authorized by law to receive it. A violation of this subdivision
24is a misdemeanor.
P3 1(e) Notwithstanding subdivision (k) of Section 1798.24 of the
2Civil Code, a court shall not compel disclosure of personal
3information in the possession of the department or the commission
4to any person in any civil proceeding wherein the department or
5the commission is not a party, except for good cause and upon a
6showing that the information cannot otherwise be obtained. This
7section shall not authorize the disclosure of personal information
8that is otherwise exempt from disclosure.
Section 19876 of the Business and Professions
10Code is amended to read:
(a) Subject to the power of the commission to deny,
12revoke, suspend, condition, or limit any license, as provided in
13this chapter, a license shall be automatically renewed annually
14upon the payment of an annual renewal fee, as listed in
15subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section
1619951.
17(b) An application for renewal of a gambling license shall be
18filed by the owner licensee or key employee with the
commission
19no later than 120 calendar days following the end of the owner
20licensee’s fiscal year. The commission shall act upon any
21application for renewal before the date of expiration of the current
22license. Upon renewal of any owner license, the commission shall
23issue an appropriate renewal certificate or validating device or
24sticker.
25(c) Unless the commission determines otherwise, renewal of an
26owner’s gambling license shall be deemed to effectuate the renewal
27of every other gambling license endorsed thereon.
28(d) In addition to the penalties provided by law, any owner
29licensee who deals, operates, carries on, conducts, maintains, or
30exposes for play any gambling game after the expiration date of
31the gambling license is liable to the state for all license fees and
32penalties that would have been due upon renewal.
33(e) If an owner licensee fails to renew the gambling license as
34provided in this chapter, the commission may order the immediate
35closure of the premises and a cessation of all gambling activity
36therein until the license is renewed.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
38Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
39the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
40district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
P4 1infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
2for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
3the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
4the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
5Constitution.
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