BILL NUMBER: AB 2137	INTRODUCED 03/05/93
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY  Assembly Member Hoge

                        MARCH 5, 1993

   An act to amend Section 19819 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to gaming.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2137, as introduced, Hoge.  Gaming clubs:  permitted
games.
   Existing law prohibits a gaming club from being located
within the territorial limits of any county, city, or city and
county which had not permitted gaming clubs prior to January 1,
1984, unless a majority of electors voting thereon approve a
ballot measure permitting legal gambling, as specified.
Existing law sets forth the form of the question to appear on
the ballot.
   This bill would add to the form of that ballot measure as
permitted games 7-card stud, pai gow poker, pai gow, and super
pan 9.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
  State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1. Section 19819 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   19819.  No gaming club shall be located within the
territorial limits of any county, city, or city and county which
had not permitted gaming clubs prior to January 1, 1984, unless
a majority of electors voting thereon affirmatively approve a
measure permitting legal gambling within that city, county, or
city and county.  The question shall appear on the ballot in
substantially the following form:   "Shall card clubs in which
any games permitted by law,
     such as draw poker, low-ball poker {- and -} {+ , +}
panguingue
     (pan) {+ , seven-card stud, pai gow poker, pai gow, and
super pan 9 +}
     are played be allowed in ____________________________?"
     Yes ___________       No ___________