Bill Text: CA SB213 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Gambling licenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-19 - Stricken from Senate file. [SB213 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB213-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 213	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to amend Section 19984 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to gambling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 213, as introduced, Florez. Gambling establishments:
proposition players.
   The Gambling Control 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. Existing law provides for the
enforcement of those activities by the Department of Justice.
Existing law allows a licensed gambling establishment to contract
with a 3rd party for the purpose of providing proposition player
services, subject to specified conditions.
   This bill would provide that nothing in the Gambling Control Act
shall be construed to prohibit a 3rd-party provider of proposition
player services, or a player employed by such a provider, from
servicing more than one table at a time.
   The bill would delete an obsolete provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19984 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19984.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed
gambling establishment may contract with a third party for the
purpose of providing proposition player services, subject to the
following conditions:
   (a) Any agreement, contract, or arrangement between a gambling
establishment and a third-party provider of proposition player
services shall be approved in advance by the department, and in no
event shall a gambling establishment or the house have any interest,
whether direct or indirect, in funds wagered, lost, or won.
   (b) The commission shall establish reasonable criteria for, and
require the licensure and registration of, any person or entity that
provides proposition player services to gambling establishments
pursuant to this section, including owners, supervisors, and players.
Those employed by a third-party provider of proposition player
services, including owners, supervisors, observers, and players,
shall wear a badge which clearly identifies them as proposition
players whenever they are present within a gambling establishment.
The commission may impose licensing requirements, disclosures,
approvals, conditions, or limitations as it deems necessary to
protect the integrity of controlled gambling in this state, and may
assess and collect reasonable fees and deposits as necessary to
defray the costs of providing this regulation and oversight.
   (c) The department, pursuant to regulations of the commission, is
empowered to perform background checks, financial audits, and other
investigatory services as needed to assist the commission in
regulating  third party   third-party 
providers of proposition player services, and may assess and collect
reasonable fees and deposits as necessary to defray the costs of
providing this regulation and oversight. The department may adopt
emergency regulations in order to implement this subdivision.

   (d) No agreement or contract between a licensed gambling
establishment and a third party concerning the provision of
proposition player services shall be invalidated or prohibited by the
department pursuant to this section until the commission establishes
criteria for, and makes determinations regarding the licensure or
registration of, the provision of these services pursuant to
subdivision (b).  
   (d) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a
third-party provider of proposition player services, or a player
employed by such a provider, from servicing more than one table at a
time.