BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 1485
Author: Senate Governmental Organization Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE : 10-0, 4/13/10
AYES: Wright, Calderon, Denham, Florez, Negrete McLeod,
Oropeza, Padilla, Price, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Gambling Control Act: licenses
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill clarifies and updates the definition
of key employee in the Gambling Control Act.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law, the Gambling Control Act (Act), provides for
the licensure of certain individuals and establishments
involved in various gambling activities, and for the
regulation of those activities, by the California Gambling
Control Commission (CGCC).
Existing law provides for the enforcement of those gambling
activities by Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Existing law makes it a crime for specified persons to fail
to apply for and obtain from CGCC, and to thereafter
maintain, a valid key employee license.
Existing law defines "key employee" as any natural person
employed in the operation of a gambling enterprise in a
supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary
decisions that regulate gambling operations, including,
without limitation, pit bosses, shift bosses, credit
executives, cashier operations supervisors, gambling
operation managers and assistant managers, managers or
supervisors of security employees, or any other natural
person designated as a key employee by DOJ for reasons
consistent with the policies of the Act.
This bill deletes the terms "pit bosses" and "shift bosses"
from the definition of "key employee" and adds "shift
managers" and surveillance managers or supervisors to the
definition of "key employee."
Comments
The Act provides CGCC with jurisdiction over the operation
of gambling establishments in California. The Act assigns
CGCC the responsibility of assuring that gambling licenses
are not issued to, or held by, unqualified or disqualified
persons, or by persons whose operations are conducted in a
manner that is inimical to the public health, safety, or
welfare. The Act directs CGCC to issue licenses only to
those persons of good character, honesty and integrity,
whose prior activities, criminal record, if any,
reputation, habits and associations do not pose a threat to
the public interest of this state. DOJ conducts background
and field investigations and enforces the provisions of the
Act in this regard.
This bill changes the definition of key employee to include
persons who are empowered to make discretionary decisions
with regard to gambling operations rather than persons who
are empowered to make discretionary decisions that regulate
gambling operations. This change provides CGCC the
authority to license those persons that have control over
gambling operations in card clubs, and, further, the state
and local governments regulate gambling, not the card
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clubs.
This bill also deletes the term "pit bosses" and "shift
bosses" from the definition of key employee and replaces it
with "shift managers". The terms "pit bosses" and "shift
bosses" are generally used in Nevada casinos, not in card
clubs which use the term "shift managers".
This bill includes surveillance managers or supervisors in
the definition of key employee. These are persons who play
a key role in the security, oversight, and in some cases,
investigations of card club activities.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
TSM:do 4/27/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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