BILL NUMBER: SB 732	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 23, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 11, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 19535 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 732, Wyland. Horse racing: northern zone: vanning of starters.
   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 divides the state into 3 geographical
zones for purposes of regulating horse racing, including the northern
zone, as specified, and, with respect to racing meetings conducted
in the northern zone, requires the association or fair conducting the
meeting to provide all stabling required by the board without cost
to participating horsemen. Existing law requires, with respect to
northern zone thoroughbred meetings only, the association conducting
the meeting to provide, at the option of the horse owner, vanning of
participating racehorses from any board-approved offsite stabling
facility in the northern zone.
   This bill would delete the latter requirement and instead
authorize with respect to the northern zone and subject to the
availability of the specified funds, at the option of the horse
owner, vanning of participating racehorses from any board-approved
offsite stabling facility.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19535 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19535.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the
time the board allocates racing weeks, it shall determine the number
of useable stalls that each association or fair shall make available
and maintain in order to conduct the racing meeting. The minimum
number of stalls may be at the site of the racing meeting or at
board-approved offsite locations.
   (b) With respect to racing meetings conducted in the northern
zone, the association or fair conducting the meeting shall provide
all stabling required by the board pursuant to subdivision (a)
without cost to participating horsemen. Offsite stabling shall be at
a board approved facility or facilities selected by the association
or fair, with the agreement of the organization representing horsemen
participating at the meeting. If there is a disagreement between the
association or fair and the organization representing the majority
of horsemen participating at the meeting with respect to the
selection of offsite stabling facilities, the board, at the request
of the association or fair or the organization representing the
majority of horsemen participating at the meeting, shall promptly
determine the board-approved facility or facilities at which offsite
stabling shall be made available. The organization representing
horsemen participating at the meeting and the association or fair
shall mutually agree on the criteria and selection of horses that may
use stalls required pursuant to this section. Northern zone racing
associations or fairs may provide, subject to the availability of
funds pursuant to Sections 19607, 19607.1, 19607.2, and 19607.3, at
the option of the horse owner, vanning of participating racehorses
from any board-approved offsite stabling facility.
   (c) (1) With respect to racing meetings conducted in the central
or southern zones, all costs associated with the maintenance of the
useable stalls for the racing meeting shall be borne by the
association or fair conducting the meeting, and, with respect to
useable stalls at an offsite location, the association or fair may be
required, by order of the board, to bear the costs of vanning from
the offsite location to the racing meeting. However, with respect to
any racing association in the central or southern zone that conducted
a racing meeting in 1986, if the number of useable stalls made
available onsite by a racing association during a racing meeting is
less than 95 percent of the number of useable stalls made available
onsite by that racing association during its 1986 racing meeting, the
racing association shall reimburse the facility providing offsite
stabling for the difference in cost between the actual number of
useable stalls made available and 95 percent of the useable stalls
made available in 1986.
   (2) The racing association shall, in addition, reimburse the owner
for vanning to the onsite location with respect to those horses
stabled at an offsite location necessitated by the failure of a
racing association to maintain 95 percent of the useable stalls made
available by that racing association during its 1986 racing meeting.