Report 2021-102 Recommendation 4 Responses

Report 2021-102: Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund: The State Could Better Manage Its Distribution Fund and Its Problem Gambling Programs (Release Date: August 2022)

Recommendation #4 To: Finance, Department of

To ensure that the conditions requiring tribes to make additional payments into the distribution fund have been fulfilled, Finance should, by December 2022, determine annually whether the distribution fund has satisfied the terms of the relevant compacts and immediately notify the Governor's Office when these provisions have been met.

6-Month Agency Response

Finance has fully implemented the recommendation by having notified the Governor's Office in February 2023 of whether the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund has had sufficient funding to fulfill its purposes for at least three consecutive years.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

60-Day Agency Response

To implement this recommendation, revised Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund revenues and expenditure data are necessary to determine whether the Fund has had sufficient pro rata funding to fulfill its purposes for at least three consecutive years. The Gambling Control Commission expects to submit this data to the Department of Finance by early December. Upon receipt of this information, Finance can verify whether the Fund has sufficient pro rata funding to fulfill its purposes for at least three consecutive years. Finance expects to provide the Governor's Office with this information by the end of December 2022.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2021-102

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.