BILL NUMBER: SB 561	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Margett

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2007

   An act to amend Section 19592 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 561, as introduced, Margett. Horse racing: parimutuel wagering:
technology.
   Existing law requires the parimutuel system of wagering be
operated only by a totalizator or other equipment approved by the
Horse Racing Board.
   This bill would include electronic terminal wagering as an
authorized form of totalizator wagering.
   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 19592 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19592.  The parimutuel system of wagering shall be operated only
by a totalizator  , including electronic terminal wagering, 
or other equipment approved by the board. The board shall not
require any particular make of equipment. The communications system,
technology, and method used to accept wagers and transmit odds,
results, and other data related to wagering shall be approved by the
board.