Bill Text: CA AB1723 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1723 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Horse Racing Law.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 420, Statutes of 2017. [AB1723 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1723-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1723

Introduced by Committee on Governmental Organization (Assembly Members Gray (Chair), Bigelow (Vice Chair), Acosta, Aguiar-Curry, Bocanegra, Brough, Cooley, Cooper, Daly, Gallagher, Gipson, Kiley, Rubio, Salas, and Waldron)

March 16, 2017

An act to amend Sections 19613.05 and 19640 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1723, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization. Horse Racing Law.

Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, generally regulates horse racing and vests the administration and enforcement of the Horse Racing Law in the California Horse Racing Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2018, requires any racing association, including a fair, that conducts thoroughbred racing to pay to the owners’ organization contracting with the association with respect to the conduct of thoroughbred racing an additional 1³/₄% of the portion required to be deducted for purses for a national marketing program, as specified. Existing law requires an owners’ organization to annually file a report with the board and specified committees of the Legislature accounting for the receipt and expenditure of these funds.

This bill would not require the owners’ organization to file the report with the legislative committees.

Existing law provides that all money representing penalties or fines imposed by the stewards of a horse race meeting be collected by the licensee of the meeting and paid to the board within 10 days after its close.

This bill would clarify that the moneys be paid to the board within 10 business days.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 19613.05 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

19613.05.

(a) Any association, including a fair, that conducts thoroughbred racing shall pay to the owners’ organization, contracting with the association with respect to the conduct of thoroughbred racing, an additional 1³/₄ percent of the portion deducted for purses, required by Section 19613, for a national marketing program. These funds shall be used exclusively for the promotion of thoroughbred racing in conjunction with a national thoroughbred racing marketing program. Funds that may not be needed for this effort shall be returned to the purse pool at the racing associations where these funds were raised in direct proportion to the amount in which they were initially raised. The owners’ organization shall file a report with the board ~~and the respective Senate and Assembly Committees on Governmental Organization,~~ accounting for the receipt and expenditure of these funds on an annual basis. The board of directors of the owners’ organization shall have the discretion to select the national marketing organization that shall be the recipient of these funds. If the board of directors of the owners’ organization decides at any time not to contribute to the national marketing organization, notice shall be given promptly to the respective racing association or associations and the 1³/₄ percent deduction shall cease until the owners’ organization decides otherwise.

(b)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends that date.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends that date.

SEC. 2.

Section 19640 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

19640.

All money representing penalties or fines imposed by the stewards of a horse race meeting shall be collected by the licensee of the meeting and paid to the board within 10 business days after its close, and the board shall deposit all ~~such money~~ those moneys in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.