Enacted by: AB 58; Stats 2009 Ch. 72

Statutes Added and Amended: Pen. C. §§ 336.9 and 337a.

From the Legislative Counsel’s Digest for this bill:

[It was] either a misdemeanor or a felony … [to], whether or not for gain … to make a betting pool or place a bet … on the result of any contest or event, including a sporting event, as specified.

This bill … create[s] an exception …, making it an infraction, punishable by [up to] $250, for a person, not for gain, hire, or reward, other than that at stake under conditions available to every participant, to participate in a bet, wager, or betting pool with another person or group of persons who are not acting for gain, hire, or reward other than that at stake under conditions available to every participant, on the result of any contest or event, including a sporting event, as specified.

This exception [does] not apply to any bet, bets, wager, wagers, or betting pool or pools made online or to betting pools with more than $2,500 at stake.