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.

May gun battles lead to membership alert by Riverside Sheriffs' Association
5/29/2008, The Desert Sun
The May gun battles on the Soboba Reservation between Riverside County sheriff's deputies and a pair of suspects that left three people dead and frustrated tribal members has triggered a new round of action. This time, a warning shot was fired Thursday by the Riverside Sheriffs' Association. The association, which represents about 3,700 members and serves as collective bargaining unit for public safety officers below the rank of sergeant, posted an alert on its Internet site that warn its members and the general public to avoid the Soboba Casino for off-duty leisurely activities. The alert also included a list of nine other tribal gaming locations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties that would offer safer environments until the situation at Soboba is resolved.

Shingle Springs casino gets deal for piped-in water5/29/2008, Scotts Valley
An Indian casino scheduled to open late this year in El Dorado County will be served by a local water agency, eliminating the prospect of up to 25 trucks a day hauling in water via Highway 50. The El Dorado Irrigation District board approved an agreement Wednesday with the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians to supply up to 135,000 gallons of water a day to the Shingle Springs Rancheria. The tribe will purchase the water at the commercial rate to serve the 270,000-square-foot Red Hawk Casino, as well as existing homes and other facilities on the rancheria. It also will pay approximately $3.7 million in connection fees.
 
 
Red Hawk Casino lands water supply5/26/2008, Biz Journal
The El Dorado Irrigation District approved an agreement Wednesday night to supply the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok with up to 135,000 gallons of water per day. The agreement means the tribe won't have to use water trucks -- perhaps as many as 50 round trips per day -- to supply the new 270,000-square-foot casino complex with water.


SoCal tribal casino's bingo machines investigated
5/29/2008, Times Standard
EL CAJON, Calif.-"Bingo!" That's what a San Diego County Indian tribe is calling the gaming machines in the casino it operates. But some regulators say the games could be slot machines in disguise. Some 300 of the bingo machines at the Sycuan Casino near El Cajon have been modified to operate faster. 
 
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Upcoming Hearings

Comments Due: 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
 
 

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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. 2963 - Congressman Issa Transfers without regulatory environmental process 1,178 ac. in Riverside and San Diego Counties to the Pechanga Band.  Why?
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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