BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2270
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Date of Hearing: April 14, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2270 (Committee on Agriculture) - As Introduced: February
18, 2010
Policy Committee: AgricultureVote:8
- 0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill makes various changes to the Equine Medication
Monitoring Program (EMMP) as it relates to the assessment of
fees for horse show events lasting more than one day.
Specifically, this bill:
1)Requires event managers of horse shows to complete an
assessment report for the California Department of Food and
Agriculture (CDFA) for each registered event.
2)Requires managers to keep event records for two years.
3)Clarifies that an event held over multiple consecutive days
with the same manager and at the same site will be considered
one event for the purposes of fee assessment.
4)Adds additional civil penalties for event managers that
violate the requirements of the EMMP.
FISCAL EFFECT
Costs associated with this legislation are minor and would be
absorbable within the existing EMMP fund.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . The sponsors of the bill, the California Horse
Council, believe that these changes to the EMMP will simplify
current law by clarifying how event managers should collect
drug fees for multi-day events. In addition, this legislation
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will create a clear mechanism for CDFA to verify that
appropriate fees were collected and remitted under the
program. Under current law, event managers are only required
to complete an assessment report and submit the collected fees
to CDFA. This bill would require them to maintain records
from their registered shows for two years which allows for
audit reviews and other verifications.
2)The Equine Medication Monitoring Program . The EMMP was
established in 1971, under the jurisdiction of the California
Department of Food and Agriculture. The purpose of the
program was to prevent the abuse of medications in show and
sale horses. Each year, approximately 1,800 events register
with the EMMP drug testing program. Blood and urine samples
taken at events are submitted for chemical analysis to the
Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at
U.C. Davis. Horses are randomly selected for drug sampling
with the emphasis placed on class winners at shows.
The EMMP is overseen by an advisory committee made up of 19
members representing the horse show industry, academia,
veterinary professionals, and one public member. All of the
members of the advisory committee are appointed by the
Secretary of the California Department of Food and
Agriculture.
Funding for the program comes from a $5 fee per event fee
charged to the owner of every horse entered in a horse show in
the state. Generally, over $600,000 per year is collected to
fund the EMMP.
Analysis Prepared by : Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)
319-2081