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type: "Bill"
title: "Gambling Control Act."
description: "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 and the investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments by the Department of Justice and requires specified employees to be licensed or obtain a work permit. Existing law defines the terms \"gambling enterprise employee\" and \"key employee\" but excludes from those definitions persons with specified duties unrelated to the gambling enterprise, such as solely the service and preparation of food and the supervision of employees employed solely to serve and prepare food, if those duties and the supervision of any other employee's duties are performed only in the areas of the establishment in which gambling is not authorized. Existing law makes a violation of a provision of the Gambling Control Act a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 884"
citation: "California SB 884 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gambling Control Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Governmental Organization"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-09"
last_action: "2023-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e74483d5-24ff-4677-8ed7-2f43cdd17f9f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB884"
source_hash: "cf04b9d70651742a106f4d05364d9b4afa0fb08655f9a0799d08e68b36bb706f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 884 (20232024) — 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 and the investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments by the Department of Justice and requires specified employees to be licensed or obtain a work permit. Existing law defines the terms "gambling enterprise employee" and "key employee" but excludes from those definitions persons with specified duties unrelated to the gambling enterprise, such as solely the service and preparation of food and the supervision of employees employed solely to serve and prepare food, if those duties and the supervision of any other employee's duties are performed only in the areas of the establishment in which gambling is not authorized. Existing law makes a violation of a provision of the Gambling Control Act a crime.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB884&version=20230SB88499INT)
2. **07/13/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB884&version=20230SB88497CHP)
3. **SB884** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB884)
4. **07/06/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB884&version=20230SB88498ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar SB884 G.O. — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · upper
- SB 884 Governmental Organization Consent Calendar Second Day — **690** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **210** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Governmental Organization — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 9.
- **2023-03-22** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2023-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 874.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2023-05-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1055.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2542.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2023-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 79, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e74483d5-24ff-4677-8ed7-2f43cdd17f9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).