BILL NUMBER: AB 1421INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Linder FEBRUARY 27, 2015 An act to amend Section 19942 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to gambling. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1421, as introduced, Linder. Gambling Control Act. Existing law, the Gambling Control Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of various legalized gambling activities and establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission. The willful failure to pay the required license fee is a crime. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. 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 19942 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 19942. (a)AnyA person who willfully fails to report, pay, or truthfully account for and pay over any license fee imposed by this chapter, or who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat the license fee or payment thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine. (b)AnyA person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which a penalty is not expressly provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor.