BILL NUMBER: AB 1857	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2010

   An act to amend Section 19596.2 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1857, as introduced, Cook. Horse racing: out-of-state
thoroughbred races: importation limitation.
   Existing law authorizes a thoroughbred racing association or fair
to distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results
of out-of-state thoroughbred races conducted in the United States
during the calendar period the association or fair is conducting a
race meeting, including days on which there is no live racing being
conducted by the association or fair, without the consent of the
organization that represents horsemen participating in the race
meeting and without regard to the amount of purses. Existing law also
provides, subject to exceptions, that the total number of
thoroughbred races imported by associations or fairs on a statewide
basis under these provisions shall not exceed 32 per day on days when
live thoroughbred or fair racing is being conducted in the state.
   This bill would provide that, subject to exceptions, the total
number of thoroughbred races imported by associations or fairs on a
statewide basis under these provisions shall not exceed 36 per day on
days when live thoroughbred or fair racing is being conducted in the
state.
   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 19596.2 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19596.2.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and
except as provided in Section 19596.4, a thoroughbred racing
association or fair may distribute the audiovisual signal and accept
wagers on the results of out-of-state thoroughbred races conducted in
the United States during the calendar period the association or fair
is conducting a race meeting, including days on which there is no
live racing being conducted by the association or fair, without the
consent of the organization that represents horsemen participating in
the race meeting and without regard to the amount of purses.
Further, the total number of thoroughbred races imported by
associations or fairs on a statewide basis under this section shall
not exceed  32   36  per day on days when
live thoroughbred or fair racing is being conducted in the state. The
limitation of  32   36  imported races per
day does not apply to any of the following:
   (1) Races imported for wagering purposes pursuant to subdivision
(c).
   (2) Races imported that are part of the race card of the Kentucky
Derby, the Kentucky Oaks, the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes,
the Jockey Club Gold Cup, the Travers Stakes, the Breeders' Cup, the
Dubai Cup, or the Haskell Invitational.
   (3) Races imported into the northern zone when there is no live
thoroughbred or fair racing being conducted in the northern zone.
   (4) Races imported into the combined central and southern zones
when there is no live thoroughbred or fair racing being conducted in
the combined central and southern zones.
   (b) Any thoroughbred association or fair accepting wagers pursuant
to subdivision (a) shall conduct the wagering in accordance with the
applicable provisions of Sections 19601, 19616, 19616.1, and
19616.2.
   (c) No thoroughbred association or fair may accept wagers pursuant
to this section on out-of-state races commencing after 7 p.m.,
Pacific standard time, without the consent of the harness or quarter
horse racing association that is then conducting a live racing
meeting in Orange or Sacramento Counties.