republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-650.md

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Bill	Gaming: 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	20232024	SB 650	California SB 650 (20232024)	bill	Gaming charitable raffles	enacted	Dodd	4	23	7	2023-02-16	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/761907fa-c113-4a92-9da0-d9704bb46986	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB650	e1a9b1d3cbd75c8b3236098a83f76512b57583f65b0976986467607758a573d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 650 (20232024) — Gaming: 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. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB650 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 650 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Low — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB650 Dodd et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Ashby — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 546.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1178.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1303.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2998.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 406, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/761907fa-c113-4a92-9da0-d9704bb46986. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).