BILL NUMBER: SB 943	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Harman

                        FEBRUARY 3, 2010

   An act to amend Section 19542 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 943, as introduced, Harman. Horse racing.
   Existing law authorizes fairs that conduct live horse racing
meetings in the northern zone to allow a joint powers authority to
administer and distribute purses and to achieve the purposes of
increasing purses at horse racing events at those fairs.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19542 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19542.  Notwithstanding any other  provision of 
law, fairs that conduct live horse racing meetings in the northern
zone may allow a joint powers authority to administer and distribute
purses and to achieve the purposes of Section 19606.4.