Gambling Control Act.

(1) 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 authorizes the commission and the department to impose and collect fees for various actions related to the licensure and regulation of gambling. The act further authorizes the commission and the department to adopt regulations regarding the fees. This bill would require the commission and the department, when increasing a fee amount, to include a clear statement justifying the need for the fee increase and explaining how the funds will be used in the regulation updating the fee. (2) The act authorizes the department to require an applicant to deposit money adequate to pay the costs of an investigation associated with an application for a license, and allows the department to require additional funds to be deposited during the investigation, as needed. The act requires the department, at the conclusion of the investigation, to refund any unused portion of this deposit and to provide a written accounting of costs and charges. This bill would require additional information to be included in the accounting of charges and would require this accounting to be provided whenever an additional deposit of funds is requested by the department.