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                                                                  SB 831
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          Date of Hearing:   August 19, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

            SB 831 (Governmental Organization) - As Amended:  May 5, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              Governmental  
          Organization Vote:                            17 - 0 

          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill reinstates a provision of the California State Lottery  
          Act that was chaptered-out by AB 1654 (Assembly Budget  
          Committee; Chapter 764, Statutes of 2008).  This bill gives a  
          player up to one year to claim prize money for a jackpot or  
          grand prize won in a multistate lottery game (Mega Millions).  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible.

           COMMENTS  

          Purpose  . AB 1251 (Tran; Chapter 8, Statutes of 2008) modified  
          the Lottery Act to bring it into compliance with a Superior  
          Court writ that required the Lottery Commission to align the  
          redemption period in state law with the redemption period for  
          Mega Millions super jackpot awards.  AB 1251 did so, allowing  
          California winners of Mega Millions super jackpots to redeem  
          grand prize winning tickets within one year, rather than 180  
          days as previously required by law. 

          However, when the Legislature passed and the Governor signed AB  
          1654 into law last year, the legislative remedy for the Mega  
          Millions redemption period was inadvertently left out of the  
          bill.  This bill corrects that oversight and brings state law  
          into compliance with judicial order.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081 








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