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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. | |
Effects of Rincon lawsuit uncertain5/19/2008, North County Times A recent ruling by a San Diego federal judge that the state can't replenish its cash-starved coffers by taxing tribal casinos has the gambling world abuzz, but there is little consensus on what effect the decision might have on the ever-expanding industry. The decision came from a lawsuit filed by the Rincon Band of Mission Indians, which owns a casino in Valley Center. Rincon filed the lawsuit after negotiations with the state broke down over how much the tribe was to pay in exchange for more slot machines.
Feds officially kill off Oakland casino plan5/19/2008, Contra Costa Times Four years after meeting with harsh rebuke from local officials, an Indian tribe's plan for a big casino near Oakland International Airport officially died Monday. The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs announced a decision to cancel work on an environmental review of the Lower Lake Rancheria Koi Nation proposal for a casino, hotel and spa complex on 35 acres of parking lot near Pardee Drive.
Free speech, not hate speech5/14/2008, Eureka Times Standard Rancheria members may dislike the way Blue Lake community members talk about rancheria actions, but we who are witnessing the destruction of one of our neighborhoods have every right to comment. We can criticize a process that is causing great distress to elderly, disabled, veteran, low income, lease-abiding neighbors who are being evicted, some who have lived in the Blue Lake Mobile Home Park for over 20 years. | |
Analyst calls lottery gamble too optimistic5/20/2008, S. F. Chronicle Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's gamble to borrow against future lottery profits to help pay down the state's $17.2 billion budget deficit is too optimistic and could cut funding for public schools, the state's legislative analyst said Monday.
Lottery plan off target5/20/2008, Mercury News SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to raise $15 billion for the state's ailing budget by dramatically expanding the lottery is "overly optimistic" and would jeopardize billions in payments to public schools, California's independent budget analyst said Monday.
Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger makes a bad lottery bet5/20/2008, Sacramento Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his minions insist that "securitizing" the state lottery - floating $18.4 billion in bonds that would be repaid from presumably larger lottery profits in the future - to reduce the budget deficit is not piling on more debt.
Legislative analyst says Schwarzenegger's budget plan is overly optimistic5/20/2008, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO -- -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to help close the state's budget shortfall by borrowing $15 billion against the future profits of a modernized, expanded lottery is overly optimistic and could exacerbate California's financial problems, according to the Legislature's chief budget analyst. | |
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Upcoming Hearings
Public Hearing: Off Reservation 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
NCLGS - National Council of Legislators from Gaming States
Summer Meeting - June 13 -15, 2008 Napa Valley Marriott Hotel and Spa Napa, California. www.nclgs.org sign up online.
Presentations will include: bingo and charitable gaming, lottery, off reservation gaming
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. Bill has been pulled.
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. Veto Bait.
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. Bill passes the Senate.
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.
H. R. 5680 Congressman Grijalva - A bill to extend leases for Morongo and transfer money to CRIT.
S. 2676 - Senator Vitter - Common Sense Indian Gambling Reform Act of 2008. To make technical corrections to IGRA. Consultation with local government.
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