BILL NUMBER: SB 819	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Governmental Organization (Senators
Wright (Chair), Berryhill, Calderon, Cannella, Correa, De León,
Galgiani, Hernandez, Lieu, Nielsen, and Padilla)

                        MARCH 14, 2013

   An act to amend Section 19605.74 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 819, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Horse racing: Breeders' Cup Championship series: payment of purses.
   Existing law generally provides for the distribution of funds
collected from wagers on horse racing in California. In years that
the Breeders' Cup Championship series is conducted at a race meeting
in California, existing law requires that specified amounts that
would have otherwise been distributed to a purse account be made
available to promote and sponsor the Breeders' Cup.
   This bill would instead specify that those amounts shall be made
available to the organization operating the Breeders' Cup
Championship series for the purpose of promoting and supporting the
Breeders' Cup, including the payment of purses in Breeders' Cup
Championship races.
   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 19605.74 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   19605.74.  For every year that the organization operating the
Breeders' Cup Championship series chooses to conduct the Breeders'
Cup at a race meeting in California, the following, notwithstanding
any other  provision of  law, shall apply to the
race meeting conducting the Breeders' Cup races on days during which
Breeders' Cup races are conducted:
   (a) The amounts that would have otherwise been distributed to a
purse account pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of
Section 19601.02 shall be made available  to the organization
operating the Breeders' Cup Championship series  for the purpose
of promoting and  sponsoring   supporting 
the Breeders' Cup  , including the payment of purses in Breeders'
Cup Championship races  .
   (b) The thoroughbred racing association hosting the Breeders' Cup
shall enter into a written agreement, in consultation and cooperation
with the California Tourism Commission and the statewide marketing
organization formed pursuant to Section 19605.73, with the
organization that operates the Breeders' Cup regarding the manner in
which the funds set aside to support and promote the Breeders' Cup
are to be expended.
   (c) Within 90 days after the holding of each Breeders' Cup, a
written report shall be made to the board detailing the manner in
which the set-aside funds were utilized to promote and support the
Breeders' Cup.