BILL NUMBER: AB 3073	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Governmental Organization (Torrico
(Chair), Charles Calderon, Davis, De Leon, Evans, Jeffries, Levine,
Mendoza, Portantino, Price, Soto, and Tran)

                        MARCH 13, 2008

   An act to amend Section 19549 of the Business and Professions
Code, and to amend Section 4058 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to horse racing.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3073, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Horse racing: racing days.
   Existing law provides that the jurisdiction and supervision over
meetings in this state where horse races with wagering on their
results are held or conducted, and over all persons or things having
to do with the operation of such meetings, is vested in the
California Horse Racing Board. This jurisdiction includes the
authority to allocate racing days and weeks to racing associations
and fairs, as provided. 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 delete the requirement that the racing days be
during the period in which general fair activities are conducted. The
bill would also make conforming changes.
   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 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.
  SEC. 2.  Section 4058 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended
to read:
   4058.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4052, the California Exposition
and State Fair, a district agricultural association fair, or county
fair in the northern zone, with the approval of the Department of
Food and Agriculture, may form an entity for conducting combined fair
 horseracing   horse racing  meetings and
utilize their racing facilities for conducting  horseracing
  horse racing  meetings, with parimutuel wagering,
on days other than the days on which general fair activities are
conducted.  A combined fair horseracing meeting pursuant to
this section shall be a general fair activity for the purpose of
Section 19549 of the Business and Professions Code. 
   (b) The association shall designate certain days of a mixed breed
meeting held pursuant to this section as charity days with the
proceeds therefrom to be distributed in accordance with Sections
19550 and 19556 of the Business and Professions Code.
   (c) The association shall encourage the racing of emerging breeds
of horses.