The Gambling Control Act: regulatory fees.

Plain English Breakdown

The exact date when these provisions will become effective is not specified in the official source material.

Regulating Gambling Fees

This law requires clear rules about how gambling fees are used and sets up a system where new or changed fees must be approved before they can take effect.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the California Gambling Control Commission to explain why each fee is needed and what it will pay for when setting or changing fees.
• Makes sure that any new or adjusted gambling fees cannot start until there are clear rules about how the money from those fees should be used.
• Limits how the money collected from these fees can be spent, ensuring it goes only to activities listed in the official rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• The California Gambling Control Commission and the Department of Justice
• Gambling establishments and people who pay gambling license fees

Terms To Know

Gambling Control Fund

A special account in the state treasury where money from gambling fees is kept.

Regulation

Official rules set by a government agency that explain how laws are followed and enforced.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not change existing fees that were already in place before it was passed.
• It is unclear when the new requirements will start to be used after the law passes.

Official Summary Text

SB 920, as amended, Archuleta.
The Gambling Control Act: regulatory fees.
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 establishes the Gambling Control Fund within the State Treasury for the receipt and deposit of fees and revenue collected pursuant to the act. Under the act, specified licensing fees are required to be paid for the issuance or renewal of a state gambling license, as specified. Existing law requires that all fees and revenue collected pursuant to the act, except all fines and penalties, be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure exclusively for the support of the department and the commission in carrying out their duties and responsibilities under the
act.
This bill would require the commission or the department, upon the adoption or adjustment of a fee that is deposited into the Gambling Control Fund, to maintain a regulation that states the authorized purpose and use of the fee, including the program activities funded and the categories of costs covered, among other things. The bill would
state that
prohibit
a fee or adjustment to a fee
shall not take
from taking
effect until the required regulation is adopted or amended and would require that revenues from a fee subject to these provisions be expended only for the activities and
purposes identified in regulation. The bill would state that these provisions do not apply to any fee adopted or amended prior to the bill’s enactment.

Current Bill Text

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