CA SB 859

enacted

California State Lottery: prize money: immediate payment.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 859 pass?

Yes. CA SB 859 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-03. Latest recorded action (2025-10-03): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 332, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 859 about?

The California State Lottery Act of 1984 authorizes a California State Lottery and provides for its operation and administration by the California State Lottery Commission and the Director of the California State Lottery. The act establishes the State Lottery Fund as a continuously appropriated fund for carrying out the purposes of the act and requires the fund to receive all proceeds from the sales of lottery tickets or shares, the temporary line of credit for initial startup costs, and all other moneys credited to the lottery from any other source. Existing law authorizes the California State Lottery to draw funds from its continuous appropriation for the purpose of making immediate payment through its revolving fund to lottery prizewinners of $1,000 or less, provided that regulations to support the action are adopted by the commission. This bill would increase the amount that may be paid immediately to lottery winners under these provisions to $100,000.

Who sponsors CA SB 859?

Committee on Governmental Organization is the primary sponsor of CA SB 859.

Description

Introduced: 2025-03-13
Latest action: 2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 332, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-03-13
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-03-14
From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 13.
2025-03-26
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2025-03-27
Set for hearing April 22.
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 831.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-25
Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-06
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-08
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1051.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-08
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-05-19
Referred to Com. on G.O.
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2025-07-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-20
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
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2025-08-21
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2777.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-08-28
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-10-03
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-03
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 332, Statutes of 2025.
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Versions

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08/29/25 - Enrolled — 2025-08-29Compare
10/03/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-03Compare
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Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-22 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Blakespear: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Jones: yes
- Hurtado: other
Consent Calendar 2nd SB859 G.O.
2025-05-08 · pass · 36-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Grove: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wiener: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Jones: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Laird: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: other
- Valladares: other
- Reyes: other
- Hurtado: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-09 · pass · 22-0
Member-level votes (22)
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bryan: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Berman: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Fong: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ta: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Davies: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
SB 859 Governmental Organization Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-08-28 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bains: yes
- Flora: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Berman: other
- Elhawary: other
- Valencia: other
- Gallagher: other

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