Bill Text: CA AB854 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 272, Statutes of 2023. [AB854 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB854-Introduced.html
and Appaloosa racing, steeplechase racing, barrel racing, and show jumping racing, if a sufficient number of horses is available to provide competition in one or more races.
Bill Title: Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 272, Statutes of 2023. [AB854 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB854-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 854
Introduced by Assembly Member Lackey |
February 14, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 19540 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 854, as introduced, Lackey.
Horse racing: fairs: steeplechase, barrel, and show jumping racing.
Under existing law, the California Horse Racing Board has all powers necessary to carry out the purposes of the Horse Racing Law, such as adopting rules and regulations to protect the public, allocating dates for, and controlling, horse racing and parimutuel wagering, and enforcing all rules and regulations. Existing law requires that, whenever a fair conducts a program of horse races on which there is parimutuel wagering, the fair, so far as practicable, provide a program of racing that includes thoroughbred racing, quarter horse racing, Arabian racing, and Appaloosa racing, if a sufficient number of horses is available to provide competition in one or more races. Under existing law, parimutuel wagering may be conducted on barrel races, show jumping races, and steeplechase races at any public or private facility that has been approved and licensed by the board.
This bill would require that, whenever a fair conducts a program of horse races on which there is parimutuel wagering, the fair, so far as practicable, provide a program of racing that includes, in addition to the types of racing included under existing law, steeplechase racing, barrel racing, and show jumping racing.