BILL NUMBER: AB 2205	CHAPTERED  09/27/08

	CHAPTER  448
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 14, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2008

   An act to add Section 19532.1 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2205, Garrick. Horse racing: racing weeks: allocations.
   The Horse Racing Law generally regulates horse racing and vests
the administration and enforcement of its provisions in the
California Horse Racing Board. Existing law requires the board to
make allocations of racing weeks as it deems appropriate and
specifies the maximum number of racing weeks that may be allocated
for horse racing other than at fairs, including, for thoroughbred
racing, a maximum of 44 weeks per year in the northern zone, 42 weeks
per year in the central zone, and 7 weeks per year in the southern
zone.
   This bill would authorize the board, if a venue used for
thoroughbred racing by an association or racing fair licensed to
conduct thoroughbred racing in the central zone in 2008 is not
available for racing in 2009 or thereafter, to allocate the dates
formerly allocated to that venue to licensed associations or racing
fairs in the southern or central zone. The bill would provide that,
upon allocation of dates pursuant to these provisions, no association
or racing fair licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the
southern or central zones may receive more than 25 weeks of
thoroughbred racing in the combined southern and central zones. The
bill would prohibit the aggregate allocation of racing weeks
conducted in the southern and central zones from exceeding the total
aggregate racing weeks permitted to be run in those zones, as
specified.



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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19532.1 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   19532.1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
excluding venues under construction for the purpose of expanded
year-round stabling and training for thoroughbred race horses, if a
venue used for thoroughbred racing by an association or racing fair
licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the central zone in 2008
is not available for racing in 2009 or thereafter, the dates formerly
allocated to that venue shall be available for allocation by the
board to licensed associations or racing fairs in the southern or
central zone.
   (b) Upon allocation of dates pursuant to this section, no
association or racing fair licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in
the southern or central zones may receive more than 25 weeks of
thoroughbred racing when aggregated among the combined southern and
central zones.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), the aggregate
allocation of racing weeks conducted in the southern and central
zones shall not exceed the total aggregate racing weeks permitted to
be run in the southern and central zones by Section 19531.