BILL NUMBER: SB 732	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 19607 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to satellite wagering.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 732, as introduced, Wyland. Satellite wagering: funding for
offsite stabling.
   Existing law requires the California Horse Racing Board to
determine the number of usable stalls that each association or fair
is required to make available and maintain in order to conduct a
racing meeting. Existing law requires, when satellite wagering is
conducted in certain areas, as specified, that an amount not to
exceed 1.25 % of the total amount handled by all of those satellite
wagering facilities be deducted from the funds otherwise allocated
for distribution as commissions, purses, and owners' premiums and
instead distributed to an organization formed and operated by
thoroughbred racing associations, fairs conducting thoroughbred
racing, and the organization representing thoroughbred horsemen and
horsewomen, to administer a fund to provide reimbursement for offsite
stabling at board-approved auxiliary training facilities for
additional stalls beyond the number of usable stalls the association
or fair is required to make available and maintain, and for the
vanning of starters from these additional stalls on racing days for
thoroughbred horses.
   This bill would require that the off-site stabling at
board-approved training facilities for which reimbursement is
provided also be located within a reasonable travel distance from the
association or fair.
   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 19607 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19607.  Notwithstanding Sections 19605.8 and 19605.9, when
satellite wagering is conducted on thoroughbred races at associations
or fairs in the central or southern zone, an amount not to exceed
1.25 percent of the total amount handled by all of those satellite
wagering facilities shall be deducted from the funds otherwise
allocated for distribution as commissions, purses, and owners'
premiums and instead distributed to an organization formed and
operated by thoroughbred racing associations, fairs conducting
thoroughbred racing, and the organization representing thoroughbred
horsemen and horsewomen, with each party having meaningful
representation on the board of the organization, to administer,
pursuant to supervision of the board, a fund to provide reimbursement
for offsite stabling at board-approved auxiliary training facilities
 located within a reasonable travel distance from the
association or fair  for additional stalls beyond the number of
usable stalls the association or fair is required to make available
and maintain pursuant to Section 19535, and for the vanning of
starters from these additional stalls on racing days for thoroughbred
horses.