AB 328

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund and the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of tribal-state gaming compacts, and authorizes moneys in those funds to be used for specified purposes, including making distributions to noncompact tribes. Existing law requires, for specified fiscal years, that the California Gambling Control Commission determine the anticipated total amount of shortfalls in payments likely to occur in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for the upcoming fiscal year and provide that figure to the Senate and Assembly for the purpose of establishing an estimate of the amount needed to transfer from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to backfill the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. Existing law requires the Legislature to transfer moneys from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund an amount sufficient for each eligible recipient tribe to receive a total not to exceed $275,000 for each quarter the tribe is eligible to receive moneys. If the transfer is insufficient the commission is required to submit a request for a budget augmentation. This bill would require the commission, if it is determined that there is an insufficient amount in the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund in a fiscal year to distribute the quarterly payments pursuant to these provisions to each eligible recipient Indian tribe, to direct a portion of a specified revenue contribution pursuant to certain tribal-state gaming compacts that would otherwise be deposited into the General Fund, to instead be deposited into the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund to increase the revenue contribution to that fund in an amount sufficient to ensure the fund has sufficient resources for each eligible recipient Indian tribe to receive the full $275,000 quarterly payments. This bill would conform these provisions to changes made by the Governor's Reorganization Plan 2.