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          Date of Hearing:   June 30, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                SB 1486 (Committee on Governmental Organization) - As  
                             Introduced:  March 8, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Governmental  
          Organization Vote:                            20 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes clarifying changes to horse racing law by  
          removing references to horse racing's financial support of  
          California's fairs and deletes obsolete and outdated references  
          in the statutes. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation.  


           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . This is the annual Senate Governmental Organization  
            Committee horseracing bill that simply cleans up obsolete code  
            sections. 

           2)The Impact of SB 16 XX on Funding California's Fairs  . SB 16 X2  
            (Ashburn; Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10 Second Extraordinary  
            Session) provides among other things, that beginning on July  
            1, 2009, and annually thereafter, $32 million shall be  
            appropriated from the state's General Fund and paid into the  
            Fair and Exposition Fund for the financial support of the  
            network of California fairs.  As a result, proceeds from horse  
            racing in California are no longer used to support the network  
            of fairs.
           
          3)Related Legislation  . AB 2792 (Assembly Governmental  
            Organization Committee), similar to this bill, deletes the  
            same reference to the requirement that horseracing support  








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            California's network of fairs. That bill is currently pending  
            in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081