Bingo: remote caller bingo.

The California Constitution allows the Legislature, by statute, to authorize cities and counties to provide for bingo games for charitable purposes. The California Remote Caller Bingo Act permits cities and counties to allow bingo games and remote caller bingo games, as defined, to be conducted by specified organizations, including an organization that is exempt from the payment of the Bank and Corporation Tax under certain provisions, for charitable purposes pursuant to an ordinance that allows those games to be conducted only in accordance with specified requirements. The act sets forth a model ordinance for a city, county, or city and county to authorize remote caller bingo, and prohibits an organization from conducting remote caller bingo more than one day per week. This bill would conform those provisions describing the kinds of organizations that may conduct remote caller bingo throughout the act to include organizations that are exempt from the payment of taxes imposed under specified provisions of the Corporation Tax Law. The bill would permit an organization to conduct remote caller bingo 2 days per week, and would make other conforming and technical changes.