Bill Text: CA AB1792 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Horse racing: license fee reduction: quarter horse

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2010. [AB1792 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1792-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1792	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  193
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 27, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 27, 2010
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 5, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 9, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 22, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 3, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Silva

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2010

   An act to amend Section 19616.51 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1792, Silva. Horse racing: license fee reduction: quarter horse
racing.
   Existing law provides that, notwithstanding any other law and in
lieu of any license fee payable to the state prescribed for or
referred to in specified provisions of the Horse Racing Law, any
association or fair that conducts a racing meeting shall pay its
proportional amount, as determined by the formula devised by the
California Horse Racing Board in consultation with the industry, as a
license fee to the state to fund the board and the equine drug
testing program, as provided. Existing law provides that the license
fee reductions resulting from these provisions, after payments to
fund the board and the equine drug testing program, shall be
distributed as specified for thoroughbred racing, quarter horse
racing, harness racing, and all other breeds. For quarter horse
racing, 2.5% of the amount of the reduction is required to be
deposited with the official registering agency and distributed as
provided.
   This bill would increase to 3% the amount of the reduction for
quarter horse racing that is to be deposited with the official
registering agency for distribution.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19616.51 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   19616.51.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and in lieu of any
license fee payable to the state prescribed for or referred to in
Section 19491, 19491.5, 19596.3, 19601, 19601.2, 19602, 19603, 19604,
19605.25, 19605.35, 19605.45, 19605.6, 19605.7, 19605.71, 19606.5,
19606.6, 19610.8, 19611, 19612, 19614, 19616, 19616.1, 19616.2, or
19641, any association or fair that conducts a racing meeting shall
only pay its proportional amount, as determined by the formula
devised pursuant to paragraph (1), as a license fee to the state, to
be deposited into the Horse Racing Fund, which is hereby established,
to fund the board and the equine drug testing program as follows:
   (1) All racing associations and fairs including all breeds of
racing shall participate in the funding of the board in accordance
with a formula devised by the board in consultation with the
industry.
   (2) The baseline funding for the board and equine drug testing
program in the first fiscal year after the enactment of this section
shall be the amount approved in the 2008-09 Budget Act.
   (3) Adjustments to the funding in subsequent budget years may only
be made by an act of the Legislature.
   (b) The license fee reductions resulting from subdivision (a),
after payments to fund the board and the equine drug testing program,
shall be distributed as follows:
   (1) For thoroughbred racing only, 3 percent of the amount of the
reduction shall be deposited with the official registering agency
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 19617.2, and shall thereafter
be distributed in accordance with subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of
Section 19617.2. The remaining amount shall be distributed to the
association that conducts the racing meeting and to horsemen
participating in that racing meeting as follows:
   (A) Fifty percent to the association as commissions.
   (B) Fifty percent to the horsemen as purses.
   (2) For quarter horse racing, 3 percent of the amount of the
reduction shall be deposited with the official registering agency
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 19617.7, and shall thereafter
be distributed in accordance with subdivisions (c), (d), (e), and (f)
of Section 19617.7, the remaining amount shall be distributed to the
association that conducts the racing meeting and to horsemen
participating in that racing meeting as follows:
   (A) Fifty percent to the association as commissions.
   (B) Fifty percent to the horsemen as purses.
   (3) For harness racing, 6 percent of the amount of the reduction
shall be distributed as specified in Section 19617.6, the remaining
amount shall be distributed to the association that conducts the
racing meeting and to horsemen participating in that racing meeting
as follows:
   (A) Fifty percent to the association as commissions.
   (B) Fifty percent to the horsemen as purses.
   (4) For all other breeds, the remaining amount shall be
distributed to the association that conducts the racing meeting and
to horsemen participating in that racing meeting as follows:
   (A) Fifty percent to the association as commissions.
   (B) Fifty percent to the horsemen as purses.