California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2619

Introduced by Assembly Member Gray

February 19, 2016

An act to amend Section 19596 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2619, as introduced, Gray. Horse racing: quarter horse races.

Existing law establishes the California Horse Racing Board, and gives that board specified duties, including authorizing a licensed quarter horse racing association that is conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on specified races, including the American Quarter Horse Racing Challenge.

This bill would authorize the board to authorize a licensed quarter horse racing association that is conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on a quarter horse stakes race with a purse equal to or greater than $100,000. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 19596 of the Business and Professions
Code is amended to read:

19596.  

(a) Notwithstanding any other begin delete provision of end delete law, the
board may do any of the following:

(1) Authorize a licensed harness racing association that is
conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on
the full card of races conducted by another racing association on
the day that other association conducts the Breeders’ Crown Stakes,
the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, the Cane Pace, the
Kentucky Futurity, or the North American Cup.

(2) Authorize a licensed quarter horse racing association that is
conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on
begin delete either end delete begin insert any end insert of the following:

(A) Races conducted by the racing association that conducts
the American Quarter Horse Racing Challenge, if the races are
conducted on the same day as the American Quarter Horse Racing
Challenge.

(B) The full card of races conducted by another racing
association on the day that other association conducts the Texas
Classic Futurity and Remington Park Futurity.

begin insert

(C) A quarter horse stakes race with a purse equal to or greater
than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).

end insert

(3) Authorize the inclusion of wagers authorized pursuant to
this section in the parimutuel pools of the out-of-state association
that conducts the races on which the wagers are placed.

(b) The board authorization may be granted under this section
only if both of the following conditions are met:

(1) The authorization complies with federal laws, including, but
not limited to, begin delete Chapter 57 (commencing with Section 3001) of
Title 15 of the United States Code end delete begin insert the Interstate Horseracing Act
of 1978 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq) end insert .

(2) Wagering is offered only within the racing enclosure and
only within seven days of the running of the out-of-state race.