Gambling Control Act: persons under 21 years of age.

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. The act prohibits a person under 21 years of age from being eligible for a work permit in a gambling establishment or from entering the premises of a gambling establishment, except as provided. The act makes it a crime, punishable as a misdemeanor, for a person under 21 years of age to, among other things, be an employee of a licensed gambling establishment where gambling activity or activity directly associated with gambling takes place. This bill would permit a person between 18 and 20 years of age, inclusive, to work in a gambling establishment in job classifications that entail providing services on and off the gaming floor that are not involved in play of any controlled game, as specified. The bill would also make conforming changes.