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California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California SB 860

Gaming: bingo.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Summary

Official abstract published by the California legislature· summary

(1) 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. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Prior law, until January 1, 2017, authorized remote caller bingo for charitable purposes and required the commission to regulate remote caller bingo, including licensure and operation. Existing law prohibits Gambling Control Act requirements from applying to remote caller bingo unless expressly made applicable by repealed provisions relating to the aforementioned remote caller bingo program. Existing law requires the commission to adopt emergency regulations concerning remote caller bingo and concerning card-minding devices by May 1, 2009. Existing law creates the Charity Bingo Mitigation Fund for the purpose of transitioning eligible entities to remote caller bingo, as specified. This bill would repeal these and related obsolete provisions relating to remote caller bingo. (2) Existing law authorizes a player who is physically present at a bingo game to use a hand-held, portable card-minding device, as specified, to assist in monitoring the numbers or symbols announced by a live caller as those numbers or symbols are called in a live game. Existing law also requires the Department of Justice to establish requirements for card-minding devices. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect card-minding devices and prohibits the use of any device that does not comply with requirements established by the department. This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing the department to inspect, and prohibit the use of, card-minding devices and requiring a card-minding device to be approved by the department.

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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 24, 2026, 4:05 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Jul 10, 2025
House		SB 860 Governmental Organization Consent Calendar Second DaypassSet your home in California to see
Jul 2, 2025
House		Do pass. To Consent Calendar.passSet your home in California to see
Jun 25, 2025
House		Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see
May 8, 2025
Senate		Consent Calendar 2nd SB860 G.O.passSet your home in California to see
Apr 22, 2025
Senate		Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent CalendarpassSet your home in California to see

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