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.

 Yuba supes lay casino odds at even money  Overall, project won't hurt county, but gaming center has negatives March 11, 200912:26:00 By Ben van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat        More than three years after YubaCounty voters cast a majority of ballots against a proposed Indian casino, debate over the project seemed anything but dead Tuesday at a YubaCounty supervisors meeting. YubaCounty supervisors voted Tuesday to send a letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs that said the proposed Enterprise Rancheria casino project wouldn't have an overall detrimental effect on the county.  READ the letters:

Bush opinion cites 'loophole' in Indian gaming law  March 10, 2009 Indianz.com
Tribes with restricted fee lands don't have to follow the Interior Department's new gaming regulations, according to an eleventh-hour legal opinion from the Bush administration. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, in general, bars gaming on lands acquired after 1988 except under certain exceptions outlined in Section 20 of the law. The new regulations, which were finalized last August, describe how Interior handles those exceptions.
But on January 18, two days before President Barack Obama took office, Interior's top legal official removed an entire class of lands from the regulations. Former solicitor David Bernhardt said the rules only apply to lands that were taken into trust pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act. READ MEMO
 



 
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LINKS and Legislation

State Legislation:
 
HR 9: Price - Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the week of March 1 to March 7, 2009, inclusive, be recognized as National Problem Gambling Awareness Week and the agencies and organizations described above be commended for their concerted effort to raise public awareness of problem gambling; and be it further  
SB 126: Cedillo - Legislation is also needed to clarify that existing law requires that all charitable bingo must be played using a tangible card and that the only permissible electronic devices to be used by charitable bingo players are card-minding devices.  
AB 293: Mendoza - (not sure of the intent of this bill)So far, addresses definitions etc.  This is a wait and see.
SB  357: Ducheny -Proposes to extend the sunset date of the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (SDF) Grant Program, for grants to local jurisdictions to mitigate the impacts of tribal casinos, until January 1, 2020. Only 21 tribes pay into this fund - all have 1999 tribal state compacts. 1999 Compacts have failed the state both financially and socially. 
 

 
Federal Legislation:
 
S. 338 US Senator Feinstein:  Requires a two-part determination for the expansion of the gaming facility or scope of gaming at Casino San Pablo operated by the Lytton Band.  Provides greater scrunity by the public and local government. Restores the management of the size and scope of gaming to the State of California. PLEASE SEND A LETTER OF SUPPORT.
 
 
 
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