BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    �



                                                                  SB 374
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          Date of Hearing:   July 13, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

               SB 374 (Strickland) - As Introduced:  February 15, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Governmental 
          Organization Vote:                            17 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill authorizes a key employee with a valid personal 
          portable license to work as a key employee in any key employee 
          position in more than one gambling establishment.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation. 


           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . According to the author, existing law only allows a 
            key employee licensee to work at one gambling establishment at 
            a time.  Therefore, individuals may not work at multiple 
            gambling sites even though the sites may have the same owner.  
            The author believes that removing this restriction will be 
            beneficial to those employees who may not be able to receive 
            full-time work at one location.

           2)Background  . A "key employee" in a gambling establishment is 
            anyone employed in the operation of a gambling enterprise in a 
            supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary 
            decisions that regulate gambling operations, including, pit 
            bosses, shift bosses, credit executives, cashier operations 
            supervisors, gambling operation managers and assistant 
            managers, managers or supervisors of security employees, or 
            any other person designated as a key employee by the 
            Department of Justice for reasons consistent with the policies 
            of the Gambling Control Act.









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           3)Related Legislation.  AB 1418 (G.O. Committee), currently 
            pending in Senate Appropriations, simplifies the definition of 
            "key employee" to include any person employed in the operation 
            of a gambling enterprise in a supervisory capacity or 
            empowered to make discretionary decisions with regard to the 
            gambling operations.  



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