BILL NUMBER: AB 1303	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 19610.7 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1303, as introduced, Hall. Horse racing: takeouts: disclosure
to patrons.
   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, authorizes racing associations
and fairs to make various deductions from the amounts handled, and
specifies the manner in which the amounts deducted are required to be
distributed. A violation of the Horse Racing Law, where no other
penalty is expressed, is a misdemeanor.
   This bill would require each racing association or fair to inform
patrons, through the official program, of the takeout being applied
to the handle for the racing meeting. By creating a new crime, the
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19610.7 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   19610.7.  A racing association or fair shall inform patrons,
through the official program, of the takeout being applied to the
handle for the racing meeting.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.