BILL NUMBER: SCR 95	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        MARCH 6, 2014

   Relative to the Kirk Breed Memorial Race Track.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 95, as introduced, Steinberg. Kirk Breed Memorial Race Track.
   This measure would designate the State Fair Race Track located on
the grounds of the California Exposition and State Fair in the City
of Sacramento as the Kirk Breed Memorial Race Track. The measure
would request the Board of Directors of the California Exposition and
State Fair to determine the cost of placing an appropriate memorial
plaque marking this special designation and, upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect that memorial
plaque.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Kirk Eldridge Breed was born on November 16, 1939, in
Choctaw, Oklahoma; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed, in his early life, developed a passion for
horses through participation in their breaking, training, racing, and
sale; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed began a long career in public service in 1963,
when he was selected to the first class of President John F. Kennedy'
s Peace Corps, serving four years in the Republic of Columbia, before
being appointed Director of the Peace Corps in the Republic of Chile
for five years; and
   WHEREAS, In 1979, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. appointed Kirk
Breed General Manager of the California Exposition and State Fair;
and
   WHEREAS, Under Kirk Breed's leadership, the State Fair grew into
one of the nation's premier agricultural events; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed continued his service to the state, serving
eight years as a member of the Board of Directors of the California
Exposition and State Fair; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed furthered his state service as a Senior
Consultant to the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization,
where he drafted legislation relating to the horse industry; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed continued to demonstrate his passion and
commitment to horses, horse racing, horse industry practices, and
higher safety standards at racetracks as a lobbyist representing the
Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association and Ray Cammack Shows,
among other clients; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed again returned to state service as Executive
Director of the California Horse Racing Board, and was widely known
for his unshakeable efforts to improve the health and safety of
racehorses across the state; and
   WHEREAS, Kirk Breed passed away on August 7, 2013, at 73 years of
age, after a brave battle with cancer; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the California Legislature hereby designates
the State Fair Race Track located on the grounds of the California
Exposition and State Fair in the City of Sacramento as the Kirk Breed
Memorial Race track; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Board of Directors of the California Exposition
and State Fair is requested, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering its cost, to place a memorial plaque marking this
special designation; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Board of Directors of the California Exposition
and State Fair and to the author for appropriate distribution.