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Stand Up for California! is a statewide organization with a focus on gambling issues including tribal gaming, card clubs, horse racing, charitable gaming and the state lottery. | |
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NCLGS - National Council of Legislators from Gaming States
Summer Meeting - June 13 -15, 2008 Napa Valley Marriott Hotel and Spa
Presentations will include: bingo and charitable gaming, lottery, off reservation gaming
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Deal to up number of slots clears hurdle
4/23/2008, The Desert Sun
SB 1201 opponents said signers of the 1999 compacts knew they placed limits on individual tribes and on machines statewide. Changing it now could be illegal and would be unfair to competing tribes whose renegotiated compacts place more environmental and community responsibilities on them, critics said. 'We are just picking and choosing sections we want to negate'' with SB 1201, complained Fred Jones, attorney for the California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion. A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he had no position on the bill.
NIGC opposes bill to mandate tribal consultation
4/23/2008, Indianz.com
National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Phil Hogen eagerly admitted last week that his agency can do a better job when it comes to consulting tribes. "There is a problem and we are continually working on it," Hogen told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday. But Hogen, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, slammed a bill in Congress that would require agencies like the NIGC to engage in "regular and meaningful consultation and collaboration" with tribes. He said the proposal would only lead to more litigation. "I think the proposed act of Congress -- that is, the House bill -- would do a disservice to us, the regulators who have a job to do," Hogen said.
Shingle Spring casino debate: water lines or water trucks
4/22/2008, Sacramento Bee
The El Dorado Irrigation District workshop will explore water service for the Red Hawk Casino, which is under construction on the Shingle Springs Rancheria between Shingle Springs Drive and Greenstone Country Road. District directors haven't addressed the issue publicly since 2002, when they denied an appeal by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians to supply water for a planned casino and hotel on the rancheria. District counsel Tom Cumpston said the workshop comes in response to a recent legal opinion by the U.S. Department of Interior Solicitor General's Office regarding restrictions imposed by the El Dorado Local Agency Formation Commission when the rancheria annexed to the irrigation district in 1989.
Texas tribe presses Supreme Court on IGRA issue
4/22/2008, Indianz.com
A CASE TO FOLLOW: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, however, rejected the move.Last August, the court ruled that Secretary Dirk Kempthorne overstepped his bounds by cutting the state out of the process. The court also invalidated the provision of IGRA that authorized Interior to step in. By a 2-1 vote, the judges said Texas was never found to be in "bad faith" as required by the law. "The Secretary may not decide the state's good faith; may not require or name a mediator; and may not pull out of thin air the compact provisions that he is empowered to enforce," Chief Judge Edith H. Jones, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the 42-page opinion. "To infer from this limited authority that the Secretary was implicitly delegated the ability to promulgate a wholesale substitute for the judicial process amounts to logical alchemy."
Yuba supervisors voice concerns about casino
4/22/2008, Appeal-Democrat
Lack of adequate wastewater treatment and an increase in traffic are two major concerns Yuba County supervisors have about a proposed Indian casino. The county plans to express those concerns to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which last month released the draft environmental impact statement for the Enterprise Rancheria hotel-casino. The project would include a 207,760-square-foot gambling facility with a casino floor and food and beverage area. It would also feature a 107,125-square-foot hotel with 170 rooms on eight floors. County voters rejected the project 52.1 percent to 47.9 percent in a 2005 nonbinding measure.
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Upcoming Hearings
Public Comment Deadline: Off Reservation Proposal -of the Enterpise Rancheria proposed fee to trust land acquisition of 40 acres and the subsequent development of an off reservation casino resort complex in Yuba County. Mail comments to Amy Dutschke, acting Regional Director, Pacific Regional Office, BIA, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA. 92825. Written comments will be accepted through May 5, 2008.
Public Comment Deadline: Comments on the Final EIS for the Scotts Valley Casino in the City of Richmond. Mail comments to Amy Dutschke, acting Regional Director, Pacific Regional Office, BIA, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA. 92825. Written comments will be accepted through April 28, 2008.
Public Hearing: Oral comments on the Ione Band DESI, May 21, 2008, The public hearing will be at the Amador County Fairgrounds, 18621 Sherwood and School Streets, Plymouth, California, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., for the proposed 228.04 acre trust acquisition and construction of casino project to be located within the City of Plymouth in Amador County, California.Mail comments to Amy Dutschke, acting Regional Director, Pacific Regional Office, BIA, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA. 92825. Written comments will be accepted through July 2, 2008,
Upcoming Conference
North American Regulators Association June 10-13, 2008 Register on Line: www.nagra.org
22nd National Conference on Problem Gambling. June 26-28, 2008, Long Beach, California. Register online:www.ncpgambling.org/conference
INDIAN COUNTRY'S WINNING HAND, October 16-17, 2008, Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino Scottsdale/Fountian Hills, Arizona. Register online: www.law.asu.edu/ilp
LINKS and Legislation
Stand Up For California - Library
Stand Up For California - Helpful Links
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State Legislation to Watch
AJR 39 - Assembly Member Huffman
Reaffirmation of the Winneman Wintu.
AB 1924 - Assembly Member Jeffries Changes the amount of charitable BINGO funds that may be used for overhead and other operational expenses.
AB 2026 - Assembly Member Levine -
The California Gambling Control in conjunction with the Department of Justice, shall perform a study and report its findings to the legislature by June 30, 2009, regarding authorizing interstate Internet Poker.
SB 62 - Sen. Florez - Permits the transfer of funds from the General Fund to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for eligible recipient tribes should there be insufficient funds in the Special Distribution Fund.
SB 331 -Sen. Romero - Imposes a state mandated local program to address tresspassers on tribal lands
SB 996 Sen. Florez - This bill would require each tribal state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and a federally recognized Indian Tribe to be ratified by the Legislature in Separate Statute.
SB 1201 - Sen. Battin Increases the aggregate limit of gaming devices licenses available for issuance under the 1999 compacts to 122,000 slot machines without tribal state compact renegotiations.
SB 1328 - Sen. Cedillo - deletes the $250 limitation on bingo game payouts, thereby allows for an award of any denomination. BILL HAS BEEN PULLED
SB - 1570 - Sen. Vincent - Requires the Governor to use best efforts to ensure that satellite wagering on horese racing is one of the forms of gaming offered at any gambling facility authorized under a compact. SB 1626 - Sen. Steinberg -Game of Bingo to be played by machine with electronic cards. Slot machines? BILL HAS BEEN PULLED SB 1679 - Sen. Florez - Lottery Reform Bill: requiresthat not less than 87% of revenues be used for prizes and to benefit education, 13% for lottery expenses. Total revenue to education will be decided by the Commission but not less than 1,200,000,000. Requires 1 million to be committed to the Office of Problem and Pathological gambling. Defines, expands and loosens restrictions of lottery game themes.
SB 1695 - Sen. Florez - Prohibits the Governor from negotiating or concluding a gaming compact with a tribe that does not have land held in trust on which the gaming is to occur and that is not federally recognized.
SCA 20 -Sen. Vincent - Constitutional Amendment authorizes Roulette and Craps on California Indian lands for compact tribes.
Federal Legislation to Watch
H.R. 3490 - Congressman Radanovich
Declares that specificed federal lands are to be held in trust by the US for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuik Indians for non gaming purposes.
H.R. 5608 Congressman Rahall - mandates that adminstration directly consults with tribes on policies that directly affect their lives.
S. 2676 - Senator Vitter - Common Sense Indian Gambling Reform Act of 2008. To make technical corrections to IGRA. Consultation with local government.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
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