The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Gambling Litigation Workload. $5  million one-time General Fund —$2.7  million in 2025-26, $1.5  million in 2026-27, and $784,000 in 2027-28 —to address gambling-related litigation authorized by Chapter  860 of 2024 (SB  549, Newman).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 6, 2021 - Bureau of Gambling Control (BGC). The budget includes $3.4  million annually in 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 from the Gambling Control Fund for cardroom-related licensing workload. The budget package also prohibits BGC from collecting certain cardroom-related fees on a one-time basis between January 2020 and August 2022 (the exact period differs by fee) and generally requires the refund of payments that were made during the covered period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460