BILL NUMBER: SB 610INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Corbett FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 19864.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to gaming. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 610, as introduced, Corbett. Gambling establishments: Santa Clara County. The Gambling Control Act provides for the licensure of certain individuals and establishments involved in various gambling activities, and for the regulation of those activities, by the California Gambling Control Commission. The act requires an application for a gambling license to be made on a specified form, and prohibits a local jurisdiction from authorizing an expansion of gambling, except as specified. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding the above provisions, a gambling establishment licensed by the commission and operating in the City of San Jose on January 1, 2010, may change its location within the County of Santa Clara by providing the commission with notice at least 3 months prior to that change. The bill would provide that these provisions do not supersede any local measure prohibiting or regulating gambling establishments. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 19864.5 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read: 19864.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 19864, Article 13 (commencing with Section 19960), or any other provision of this chapter, a gambling establishment licensed by the commission and operating in the City of San Jose on January 1, 2010, may change its location within the County of Santa Clara by providing the commission with notice at least three months prior to that change. No application to, or approval by, the commission shall be required to authorize that change of location. (b) This section does not supersede any local measure prohibiting or regulating gambling establishments.