BILL NUMBER: AB 2258	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 3, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2008

   An act to amend Section 19616.51 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2258, as amended, Evans. Horse racing: license fees:
shortfalls: pro rata assessment.
   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides that if the total
amount paid to the state by racing associations and fairs is less
than $40,000,000 in any calendar year, all associations and fairs
that conducted live racing during the year of the shortfall are
required to remit certain amounts, on a pro rata basis  according
to the amount handled in-state by each association or fair  ,
in order to attain that $40,000,000 total.
   This bill would  make clarifying and technical changes to
this provision   specify instead that if the total
amount paid to the state as license fees by racing associations and
fairs is less than $40,000,000 in any calendar year, all  
associations and fairs that conducted live racing during the year of
the shortfall shall remit to the state, on a pro rata basis according
to the amount paid as license fees by each association or fair, the
amount necessary to bring the total amount paid to the state as
license fees to $40,000,000  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19616.51 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   19616.51.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the
total amount paid to the state  as license fees  by racing
associations and fairs pursuant to this chapter is less than forty
million dollars ($40,000,000) in any calendar year, beginning January
1, 2001, and thereafter, all associations and fairs that conducted
live racing during the year of the shortfall shall remit to the
state, on a pro rata basis according to the  total amount
handled in-state   amount paid as license fees  by
each association or fair, the amount necessary to bring the total
amount paid to the state  as license fees  to forty million
dollars ($40,000,000). The amounts due under this section, if any,
shall be paid from the amount available for commissions, purses, and
breeder awards, and shall be paid to the board prior to March 1 of
the year following the year of the shortfall.