BILL NUMBER: AB 2205	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2008

   An act to amend Section 19549 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2205, as introduced, Garrick. Horse racing: racing days.
   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, generally regulates horse
racing and vests the administration and enforcement of the Horse
Racing Law in the California Horse Racing Board.
    Existing law permits the board to allocate up to 14 racing days
to a fair each year, with specified exceptions, and provides that
these 14 days shall be during the period in which general fair
activities are conducted.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   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 19549 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19549.  Except as provided in Section 19549.1, the maximum number
of racing days  that   which  may be
allocated to a fair shall be 14 days each year. Those racing days
shall be days during the period in which general fair activities are
conducted. However, any fair racing association that conducted racing
in the central or southern zone prior to January 1, 1980, shall be
entitled to be allocated up to three weeks of racing. The board shall
take public testimony and make all determinations on the allocation
of racing dates during a public hearing. All discussions of
allocating racing dates by the board or its subcommittees shall be
conducted during a public hearing. Nothing in this section diminishes
the authority of the board to establish racing dates.