 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribal-state gaming compacts: ratification and payment securitization. | 5 | 1 | AB 687 (2003-2004) | Campbell | |
| This bill ratifies the amendments to the Tribal-State Gaming Compacts recently renegotiated by the Governor and five gaming tribes. It authorizes the issuance of bonds, secured by Indian gaming revenue, for an amount up to $1.5 billion, to be dedicated for transportation improvement purposes. It also provides the tribes with the authority to seek injunctive relief if their exclusive right to conduct Class III games in this state is ever breached. | |||||
| Gambling Control Act. | 1 | 1 | SB 1524 (2003-2004) | Vincent | |
| This bill changes the eligibility criteria for obtaining a gambling license to allow out of state casino owners to obtain one. | |||||
| Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities. | 1 | 1 | AB 401 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill allows racetracks and fairgrounds to operate additional satellite wagering facilities. | |||||
| Horse racing: out-of-country thoroughbred races. | 1 | 1 | AB 509 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill allows the Thoroughbred or fair association to distribute information about out of country horse races. The bill also changes other rules relating to racetracks. | |||||
| Gambling. | 1 | 1 | AB 864 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| This bill permits local agencies to amend their ordinances to allow, in a gambling establishment, for an increase in the number of gambling tables, hours of operation, or maximum amount wagered. | |||||
| County Health Initiative Matching Fund. | 1 | 1 | AB 1524 (2003-2004) | Richman | |
| This bill would expand the scope of the fund's health insurance coverage to include adults who are parents of or responsible for children eligible for the Healthy Families or Medi-Cal programs and who meet specified criteria. The bill would only authorize funding for adults in a fiscal year if the funds are not needed for the children's expansion program. | |||||
| Business - Fairs | 1 | 0 | SB 690 (2003-2004) | Ashburn | |
| This bill allows the Kern County Fair to re-establish its one existing satellite wagering facility off the fairgrounds property to another location within the boundaries of the fair as specified. | |||||
| Cockfighting. | 9 | 0 | SB 732 (2003-2004) | Soto | |
| This bill increases the penalties for cockfighting related offenses. | |||||
| Gaming - Horse Racing | 1 | 0 | SB 738 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |
| This bill defines a "California bred standardbred horse" as a standardbred foal dropped by a mare in California after being conceived in California by a stallion registered with the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program (CSSSP). | |||||
| Horse racing. | 1 | 0 | SB 813 (2003-2004) | Vincent | |
| This bill ensures that if live racing at the Solano County Fair is ever discontinued, that the fair will be compensated for the loss of the live racing with three percent of the total amount handled at a satellite wagering facility authorized for the Solano County Fair. | |||||
| Gambling. | 1 | 0 | SB 814 (2003-2004) | Vincent | |
| This bill increases a current moratorium on the construction and licensing of new non-Indian gambling establishments as specified, from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2010 and provides that the California Gambling Control Commission may renew gambling licenses for a period of up to two years. | |||||
| Tribal gaming: compact ratification. | 1 | 0 | SB 1117 (2003-2004) | ||
| Ratifies and enacts new and amended compacts with four California Indian tribes to allow gambling to be conducted on their lands. | |||||
| Gambling | 1 | 0 | SB 1183 (2003-2004) | Margett | |
| Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to permit a harness racing association to accept wagers on races conducted on the same day as the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, and the North American Cup. | |||||
| Horse racing: fairs: allocation of racing dates. | 1 | 0 | SB 1227 (2003-2004) | Soto | |
| This bill prohibits the California Horse Racing Board from allocating racing dates to a private thoroughbred association in the central or southern zone. | |||||
| Horse Racing | 1 | 0 | SB 1288 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |
| Increases the amount of money distributed to the California Standardbred Sire Stakes Program from wagers made on harness racing in California. | |||||
| Indian tribes: tribal-state gaming compacts. | 1 | 0 | AB 131 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill continuously appropriates funds from the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) and requires a legislative review of CGCC’s management and distribution of these funds. | |||||
| Slot machines or devices. | 2 | 0 | AB 360 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill states that tribal-licensed manufacturers are exempted from the state ban on the sale and possession of slot machines. | |||||
| Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities. | 1 | 0 | AB 381 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |
| This bill allows racetracks and fairs to use additional satellite wagering facilities in order to make betting on races easier. | |||||
| Horse racing: deductions. | 1 | 0 | AB 388 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |
| This bill allows the California Horse Racing Board to set the deduction for any new type of horse racing wager introduced after January 1, 2004, in an amount of not less than 10 nor more than 30%, and charge a 3% license fee. | |||||
| Horse racing. | 1 | 0 | AB 571 (2003-2004) | Yee | |
| This bill provides that a non-thoroughbred racing association that is conducting live racing after 6 p.m. and receiving a satellite signal from another non-thoroughbred racing association that is also conducting live racing, shall not be required to accept that satellite signal unless there is a written agreement between the two associations. | |||||
| California State Lottery Act. | 1 | 0 | AB 617 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| This bill establishes that coins or currency may not be dispensed as prizes to players from computer terminals or devices. | |||||
| Horse racing. | 1 | 0 | AB 667 (2003-2004) | Harman | |
| This bill establishes that any racetrack employee who wrongfully attempts to affect or wrongfully affects the outcome of a horse race is guilty of a misdemeanor. It also authorizes 5 satellite-wagering facilities in Los Angeles. | |||||
| Gambling. | 1 | 0 | AB 673 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill provides for allocation of funds from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the purpose of backfilling shortfalls in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund, and for a problem gambling prevention program. | |||||
| Horse racing: workers' compensation. | 1 | 0 | AB 900 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill makes changes to existing Horse Racing Law, which prescribes the amount deducted from the pari-mutuel pools, as specified, in order to address the increase in workers' compensation costs within the California horse racing industry. | |||||
| Horse racing: racing weeks. | 2 | 0 | AB 1128 (2003-2004) | Liu | |
| Allows the California Horse Racing Board to authorize a racing program that includes Breeders' Cup prep races on September 28, 2003, a date when a fair is also conducting live racing in the central zone. | |||||
| Gambling Control Act: proposition player services. | 1 | 0 | AB 1186 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |
| This bill requires the California Gambling Control Commission to issue licenses for proposition player services only to persons that the Commission is satisfied are of good character. | |||||
| Gambling Control Act. | 1 | 0 | AB 1489 (2003-2004) | Negrete McLeod | |
| This bill requires the Division of Gambling Control to post on the Attorney General's Web site the rules of play and the collection rates of each game approved at each card room. Requires a licensee making a request of the Division to approve a new game and collection rate to reimburse the Division for the actual costs incurred. | |||||
| Horse racing: workers' compensation. | 1 | 0 | AB 1838 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| Requires horse racing associations to deduct a specified additional percentage of certain wagering pools to help defray workers' compensation insurance costs. | |||||
| Horse racing: marketing. | 2 | 0 | AB 2164 (2003-2004) | Plescia | |
| Extends a "sunset" date related to a private statewide marketing organization to market and promote thoroughbred and fair horse racing in California. | |||||
| Horse racing: harness horse races. | 1 | 0 | AB 2538 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |
| Outlines specific deadlines for an exchange of purse fund payments between a harness and quarter horse racing associations who imports additional out-of-state or out-of-country races as specified. | |||||
| Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | 1 | 0 | AB 2579 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| Revises the composition of the Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee (Benefit Committee) in San Diego County. | |||||
| Horse racing: reporting. | 1 | 0 | AB 2945 (2003-2004) | Calderon | |
| Requires that the annual report of the California Horse Racing Board to the Governor and Legislature include information on workers' compensation costs and their impact on horse racing industry. | |||||
| Horse racing: the Travers Stakes. | 1 | 0 | AB 3091 (2003-2004) | ||
| Adds the Travers Stakes to the group of specific stake races which are exempt from the 23-race per day limit on imported races. | |||||
| Horse racing: racing days and weeks. | SB 141 (2003-2004) | Soto | |||
| This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the California Horse Racing Board. | |||||
| Indian gaming: tribal state compacts. | SB 411 (2003-2004) | Ducheny | |||
| This bill ratifies the tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the state of California and the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel Reservation and the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation. | |||||
| Indian gaming. | SB 621 (2003-2004) | Burton | |||
| This bill establishes priorities and procedures for funding to local governments from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (IGSDF) for the purpose of mitigating impacts from tribal casinos. | |||||
| Gambling Control Act. | SB 742 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill makes technical and clarifying changes to the Gambling Control Act. | |||||
| Gaming regulation. | SB 769 (2003-2004) | Battin | |||
| This bill makes several necessary technical and clarifying changes to the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | |||||
| Horse racing. | SB 846 (2003-2004) | Margett | |||
| This bill makes a nonsubstantive change to laws governing the California Horse Racing Board. | |||||
| Indian gaming: tribal-state compacts. | SB 930 (2003-2004) | Burton | |||
| This bill ratifies the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the Torres-Martinez Tribe and the state of California. | |||||
| Indian gaming. | SB 1586 (2003-2004) | Murray | |||
| This bill provides that money from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund go to programs designed to address "problem gambling." | |||||
| Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities. | SB 1786 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill makes nonsubstantive changes in a law regarding the California Horse Racing Board. | |||||
| Gambling control. | SB 1812 (2003-2004) | Vincent | |||
| This bill authorizes an administrative law judge, in cases in which that judge recommends that the California Gambling Control Commission revoke, suspend, or deny a gaming license, to order the licensee or applicant for a license to pay the Division of Gambling Control the reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution of the case. | |||||
| Gambling Control Act. | AB 278 (2003-2004) | Bermudez | |||
| This bill clarifies existing law to include poker, Pai Gow, or any game played with cards or tiles, in the category "controlled game." | |||||
| Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | AB 675 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| This bill revises the composition of the Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee in San Diego County. | |||||
| Horse racing: charity days. | AB 771 (2003-2004) | Wyland | |||
| This bill requires that 20% of the distribution from charity day racing go to a nonprofit corporation that cares for retired racehorses. | |||||
| Horse racing: advance deposit wagering. | AB 870 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| This bill specifies the compensation for a licensee, betting system, or multi-jurisdictional wagering hub, with a specified labor agreement, which accepts advance deposit wagers at a live operator telephone call center located in this state, without reference to the residency of the wagering party. | |||||
| California State Lottery. | AB 1204 (2003-2004) | Chavez | |||
| Allows the state lottery to use baccarat or dog racing themes. | |||||
| Indian Gaming. | AB 1275 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |||
| This bill establishes a stand-alone chapter within the Government Code for Tribal-State gaming compacts. | |||||
| Gambling establishments. | AB 1780 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Renumbers a provision within the Gambling Control Act to correct its placement among sections reorganized in previous legislation. | |||||
| Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | AB 2162 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | |||
| Changes references to eligible recipients of Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (IGSDF) grant to those under "local jurisdictions". | |||||
| Tribal gaming. | AB 2214 (2003-2004) | Nation | |||
| If changes are made to tribal gaming compacts, tribes can negotiate with local governments regarding off-reservation impacts, including land use and environmental impacts. | |||||
| Tribal-state gaming compacts. | AB 2273 (2003-2004) | Dymally | |||
| Declares the Legislature's to enter into a tribal-state gaming compact with the Gabrielino/Tongva tribes. | |||||
| California Gambling Control Commission. | AB 2551 (2003-2004) | Calderon | |||
| This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to ensure that the California Gambling Control Commission is fulfilling its primary objectives established by the Gambling Control Act. | |||||
| Horse racing. | AB 3083 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Adds specific definitions for the terms "handle," "takeout," and "advance deposit wagering" to the statute in an effort to update Horse Racing Law. | |||||
| Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | AB 3089 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Funds not allocated from a county tribal casino account, if not allocated by the end of each fiscal year, revert back to the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. | |||||
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