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CA SB 860

enacted

Gaming: bingo.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 860 pass?

Yes. CA SB 860 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-28. Latest recorded action (2025-07-28): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 76, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 860 about?

(1) The California Constitution permits the Legislature to authorize cities, counties, and cities and counties to provide for bingo games for charitable purposes. Existing law authorizes those local agencies to regulate bingo games for charitable purposes under specified criteria. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Prior law, until January 1, 2017, authorized remote caller bingo for charitable purposes and required the commission to regulate remote caller bingo, including licensure and operation. Existing law prohibits Gambling Control Act requirements from applying to remote caller bingo unless expressly made applicable by repealed provisions relating to the aforementioned remote caller bingo program. Existing law requires the commission to adopt emergency regulations concerning remote caller bingo and concerning card-minding devices by May 1, 2009. Existing law creates the Charity Bingo Mitigation Fund for the purpose of transitioning eligible entities to remote caller bingo, as specified. This bill would repeal these and related obsolete provisions relating to remote caller bingo. (2) Existing law authorizes a player who is physically present at a bingo game to use a hand-held, portable card-minding device, as specified, to assist in monitoring the numbers or symbols announced by a live caller as those numbers or symbols are called in a live game. Existing law also requires the Department of Justice to establish requirements for card-minding devices. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect card-minding devices and prohibits the use of any device that does not comply with requirements established by the department. This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing the department to inspect, and prohibit the use of, card-minding devices and requiring a card-minding device to be approved by the department.

Who sponsors CA SB 860?

Committee on Governmental Organization is the primary sponsor of CA SB 860.

Description

(1) The California Constitution permits the Legislature to authorize cities, counties, and cities and counties to provide for bingo games for charitable purposes. Existing law authorizes those local agencies to regulate bingo games for charitable purposes under specified criteria. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Prior law, until January 1, 2017, authorized remote caller bingo for charitable purposes and required the commission to regulate remote caller bingo, including licensure and operation. Existing law prohibits Gambling Control Act requirements from applying to remote caller bingo unless expressly made applicable by repealed provisions relating to the aforementioned remote caller bingo program. Existing law requires the commission to adopt emergency regulations concerning remote caller bingo and concerning card-minding devices by May 1, 2009. Existing law creates the Charity Bingo Mitigation Fund for the purpose of transitioning eligible entities to remote caller bingo, as specified. This bill would repeal these and related obsolete provisions relating to remote caller bingo. (2) Existing law authorizes a player who is physically present at a bingo game to use a hand-held, portable card-minding device, as specified, to assist in monitoring the numbers or symbols announced by a live caller as those numbers or symbols are called in a live game. Existing law also requires the Department of Justice to establish requirements for card-minding devices. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect card-minding devices and prohibits the use of any device that does not comply with requirements established by the department. This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing the department to inspect, and prohibit the use of, card-minding devices and requiring a card-minding device to be approved by the department.

Introduced
2025-03-13
Latest action
2025-07-28 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 76, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Committee on Governmental Organizationauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-13

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-03-14

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 13.

  3. 2025-03-26

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-27

    Set for hearing April 22.

  5. 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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  6. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  7. 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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  8. 2025-05-06

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  9. 2025-05-08

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1051.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  10. 2025-05-08

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  11. 2025-05-19

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  12. 2025-06-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  13. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).

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  14. 2025-07-03

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  15. 2025-07-10

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2509.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  16. 2025-07-10

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  17. 2025-07-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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  18. 2025-07-28

    Approved by the Governor.

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  19. 2025-07-28

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 76, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

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)
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Hurtado: other

  • Consent Calendar 2nd SB860 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

    2025-06-25 · pass · 22-0

    Member-level votes (22)
    • Fong: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Solache: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-07-02 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Mark González: other

  • SB 860 Governmental Organization Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-07-10 · pass · 72-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Flora: other
    • Gipson: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Alanis: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other
    • Carrillo: other
    • Rivas: other

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