BILL NUMBER: AB 2592	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Chesbro
  Members   Chesbro   and Levine 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

    An act to amend Section 40051 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to solid waste.   An act to amend Section
19530 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse
racing. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2592, as amended, Chesbro.  Solid waste: management.
  California Horse Racing Board: racing dates: economic
analysis.  
   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides for the operation of
live horse racing in this state and for wagering thereon, and for the
operation of satellite wagering facilities, subject to regulation
and oversight by the California Horse Racing Board. That law also
requires the board to allocate racing weeks to an applicant, to
specify racing days, dates, and hours for horse racing meetings as
will be in the public interest, and provides that the decision of the
board is subject to change, limitation, or restriction only by the
board.  
   This bill would require the board, when it receives a proposal
from an applicant to make a substantial change, as defined, to the
number of racing dates allocated to a fair or racetrack, to conduct
an economic analysis of the proposal's effect on other fairs and
racetracks and to consider all proposed alternative racing dates
based on that economic analysis before the board votes on the
proposal or any alternative option to the original proposal. 

   Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery and local agencies, when implementing the California
Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, to promote certain waste
management practices in a specified order of priority. 

   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
requirements. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 19530 of the  
Business and Professions Code  is amended   to
read: 
   19530.   (a)    The board shall have the
authority to allocate racing weeks to an applicant or applicants
pursuant to the provisions of this article and Article 6.5
(commencing with Section 19540) and to specify  such
  those  racing days, dates, and hours for horse
racing meetings as will be in the public interest, and will subserve
the purposes of this chapter. The decision of the board as to
 such  racing days, dates, and hours shall be
subject to change,  limitation   limitation,
 or restriction only by the board.  No   A
 municipality or county shall  not  adopt or enforce
any ordinance or regulation  which   that 
has or may have the effect of directly or indirectly regulating,
 limiting   limiting,  or restricting the
racing days and dates of horse racing meetings. 
   (b) When the board receives a proposal from an applicant to make a
substantial change to the number of racing dates allocated to a fair
or racetrack, the board shall conduct an economic analysis of the
proposal's effect on other fairs and racetracks and shall consider
all proposed alternative racing dates based on that economic analysis
before the board votes on the proposal or any alternative option to
the original proposal.  
   (c) As used in this section, "substantial change" means any race
date change that changes the dates more than three days from the
prior year's horse racing dates.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 40051 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   40051.  In implementing this division, the department and local
agencies shall do both of the following:
   (a) Promote the following waste management practices in order of
priority:
   (1) Source reduction.
   (2) Recycling and composting.
   (3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally safe
land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county.
   (b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling,
and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste
that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For
wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or
composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe
transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of
those practices.