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Bill	Bingo: overhead costs.	The California Constitution permits the Legislature to authorize cities, counties, and cities and counties to provide for bingo games for charitable purposes. Existing law authorizes those local agencies to regulate bingo games for charitable purposes under specified criteria. Existing law requires the proceeds from authorized bingo games to be kept in a special fund and not commingled with any other fund or account. Existing law requires those funds be used only for charitable purposes, except for specified uses. Existing law authorizes an organization to use the funds for rental costs and the purchase of bingo equipment, among other specified uses. Existing law limits the amount to be spent on overhead costs to 20% of the proceeds before the deduction for prizes, or $2,000 a month, whichever is less.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1044	California SB 1044 (20232024)	bill	Bingo overhead costs	enacted	Seyarto	5	22	5	2024-02-07	2024-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/a7cd2735-1ad2-4c75-8241-331c5b61e9f4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1044	6eeb3166983138362fdd9e5039f70df819681c86da38a783eb2c96c8476c900c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1044 (20232024) — Bingo: overhead costs.

The California Constitution permits the Legislature to authorize cities, counties, and cities and counties to provide for bingo games for charitable purposes. Existing law authorizes those local agencies to regulate bingo games for charitable purposes under specified criteria. Existing law requires the proceeds from authorized bingo games to be kept in a special fund and not commingled with any other fund or account. Existing law requires those funds be used only for charitable purposes, except for specified uses. Existing law authorizes an organization to use the funds for rental costs and the purchase of bingo equipment, among other specified uses. Existing law limits the amount to be spent on overhead costs to 20% of the proceeds before the deduction for prizes, or $2,000 a month, whichever is less.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1044 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB1044 Seyarto et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1044 Seyarto Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Seyarto — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Set for hearing March 12.
• 2024-02-29 March 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-03-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2024-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3528.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3772.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-06 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-06-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6037.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 128, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7cd2735-1ad2-4c75-8241-331c5b61e9f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).