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Bill	Charitable raffles.	The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to permit private, nonprofit organizations to conduct raffles as a funding mechanism to support beneficial and charitable works, if, among other conditions, at least 90% of the gross receipts from the raffle go directly to beneficial or charitable purposes in California. The California Constitution further authorizes the Legislature to amend the percentage of gross receipts required to be dedicated to beneficial or charitable purposes by a statute passed by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature. Existing statutory law implements those provisions and requires the Department of Justice to administer and enforce those provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 888	California AB 888 (20172018)	bill	Charitable raffles.	enacted	Low	11	39	10	2017-02-16	2018-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9fa2c1db-ab8c-46d8-92ea-29211123adfd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB888	084733c445ef5227b1bc96e3e794d70eb091bd5acddfee8d9d9351587f7c73a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 888 (20172018) — Charitable raffles.

The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to permit private, nonprofit organizations to conduct raffles as a funding mechanism to support beneficial and charitable works, if, among other conditions, at least 90% of the gross receipts from the raffle go directly to beneficial or charitable purposes in California. The California Constitution further authorizes the Legislature to amend the percentage of gross receipts required to be dedicated to beneficial or charitable purposes by a statute passed by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature. Existing statutory law implements those provisions and requires the Department of Justice to administer and enforce those provisions.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/14/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/31/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/02/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB888 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB888 Low et al. By Wiener Urgency Clause — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 888 LOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 888 Low Concurrence - Urgency Added — 61–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2017-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-25 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-01-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2018-01-04 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & P. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 4). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-01-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3868.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-05-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-06 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 6080.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 11.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 575, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9fa2c1db-ab8c-46d8-92ea-29211123adfd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).