BILL NUMBER: AB 2205	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2008

   An act to add Section 19531.2 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2205, as amended, Garrick. Horse racing: racing weeks: 
22nd District Agricultural Association.   allocations.

   Existing law generally creates district agricultural associations,
which are state institutions.
   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
requires the board to make allocations of racing weeks as it deems
appropriate and specifies the maximum number of racing weeks that may
be allocated for horse racing other than at fairs, including, for
thoroughbred racing, a maximum of 44 weeks per year in the northern
zone, 42 weeks per year in the central zone, and 7 weeks per year in
the southern zone.
   This bill would, in the event a venue used for thoroughbred racing
by an association licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the
central zone in 2008 is not available for racing in 2009 or
thereafter,  permit the board to authorize the 22nd District
Agricultural Association to use allocations of racing weeks from the
central zone and conduct thoroughbred racing throughout the year,
whether or not those racing days coincide with an annual fair, so
long as   authorize the board to allocate the dates
formerly allocated to that venue to other associations or fairs that
conducted licensed race meetings in 2008 in the southern or central
zone in accordance with specified requirements, including, among
others, that a certain agreed upon plan of allocation be submitted
annually to the board and that  the aggregate racing weeks
conducted in the southern and central zones do not exceed the total
aggregate racing weeks allocated, as specified.
   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 19531.2 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read: 
   19531.2.  Notwithstanding Section 19531 and any other provision of
law, in the event a venue used for thoroughbred racing by an
association licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the central
zone in 2008 is not available for racing in 2009 or thereafter, the
board may authorize the 22nd District Agricultural Association to use
allocations of racing weeks from the central zone and conduct
thoroughbred racing throughout the year, whether or not those racing
days coincide with an annual fair, so long as the aggregate racing
weeks conducted in the southern and central zones do not exceed the
total aggregate racing weeks allocated pursuant to Section 19531.

    19531.2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in
the event a venue used for thoroughbred racing by an association
licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the central zone in 2008
is not available for racing in 2009 or thereafter, the dates formerly
allocated to that venue shall be available for allocation to other
associations or fairs, and those associations and fairs that
conducted licensed race meetings in 2008 in the southern or central
zone may conduct additional racing using an allocation of those
unused dates from the central zone in accordance with all of the
following:
   (a) Absent its consent to accept a lesser allocation, an
association or fair that conducted licensed race meetings in 2008 in
the southern or central zone shall be entitled to an allocation of
not less than the dates allocated to it during 2007 or 2008,
whichever is greater.
   (b) An association or fair continuing to conduct racing in 2009
and beyond, together with the organization representing thoroughbred
horsemen, shall annually, on a date set by the board, submit an
agreed upon plan of allocation that the board may adopt. In the event
an agreed upon plan of allocation is not presented to the board in
any year, the board shall determine the appropriate allocation for
the year following.
   (c) The aggregate allocation of racing weeks conducted in the
southern and central zones shall not exceed the total aggregate
racing weeks permitted to be run in the southern and central zones by
Section 19531.