BILL NUMBER: AB 3074	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 19596 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3074, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Horse racing.
   Existing law provides that the California Horse Racing Board may
authorize a California harness racing association conducting a live
racing meeting to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted
by another racing association on the day that other association
conducts the Breeder's Crown Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the
Hambletonian, or the North American Cup.
   This bill would authorize the board to permit a California harness
racing association conducting a live racing meeting to accept wagers
on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on
the day that other association conducts the Kentucky Futurity.
   Under existing law, all revenues distributed to the state as
license fees from horse racing are required to be deposited in the
Fair and Exposition Fund and are continuously appropriated to the
Department of Food and Agriculture for various regulatory and general
governmental purposes.
   This bill would authorize additional wagering, and would increase
correspondingly the amount of continuously appropriated license fees,
thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also result in a
change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues
within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California
Constitution, thereby requiring a 2/3 vote for passage.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. 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 provision of 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 Breeder's Crown Stakes, the
Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian,  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
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.
   (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, Chapter 57 (commencing with Section 3001) of Title 15
of the United States Code.
   (2) Wagering is offered only within the racing enclosure and only
within seven days of the running of the out-of-state race.