BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2270
Author: Assembly Agriculture Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE : 5-0, 6/15/10
AYES: Florez, Emmerson, Hancock, Hollingsworth, Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 4/22/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Horses: show, competition, and sale events:
fees:
registration
SOURCE : California Horse Council
DIGEST : This bill requires event managers of a horse
event to complete an assessment report for the registered
event to the California Department of Food and Agriculture
(CDFA), requires managers to keep registered event records
for two years, making those records available to CDFA upon
request; provides 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, and adds additional civil penalties for
managers for violations.
ANALYSIS : In 1971, the California horse industry
CONTINUED
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sponsored legislation to deter the misuse of drugs and
medications in show and sale horses. The program has
evolved over the years into today's Equine Medication
Monitoring Program (EMMP) implemented by the CDFA. Each
public horse show, sale, and competition is required to be
registered by the event manager with CDFA at least 30 days
prior to the occurrence of any horse event or face civil
penalties ranging from $100 to $2,500.
AB 1810 (Galgiani), Chapter 87, Statutes of 2008, revised
the requirement for the EMMP Advisory Committee to meet
once per year; provided that the chairperson may call for
additional meetings as determined to be necessary;
clarified that the committee may elect a chairperson at the
pleasure of the committee; and specified a "horse event
manager" to mean an individual or entity that is
financially responsible for the event.
AB 945 (Assembly Agriculture Committee), Chapter 262,
Statutes of 2009, deleted alternative certificate options
for an individual horseshow, competition, or sale, thereby
having all designated shows, competitions, and sales under
CDFA.
This bill:
1.Requires the event manager to complete an assessment
report for the registered event.
2.Requires the event manager to keep event records for up
to two years after the completion of the event and make
those records available upon request of CDFA for
inspection and duplication to verify appropriate
collection of fees.
3.Specifies that registered events held over multiple
consecutive days, with a different judge for each day,
and managed by the same event manager are only assessed a
single event fee.
4.Authorizes CDFA to suspend an event manager from hosting
or managing a public horse show or competition for at
least 90 days but not more than one year in addition to a
civil penalty, if after notice and opportunity for a
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hearing the event manager failed to register a public
horse show, competition, or sale with CDFA.
5.Specifies that if a suspended manager hosts or manages a
horse show, competition, or sale they may be subject to
further civil penalties ranging from $100 to $2,500 per
violation.
Comments
Supporters state that this bill improves CDFA's ability to
enforce regulations on horse events. This bill clarifies
the law regarding the appropriate collection of assessment
fees for multi-day horse events by specifying a single
assessment for multi-day events. Supporters specify that
there is no method for verification of assessment fee
collection for registered equine events. This bill's
requirement to maintain event records will enable CDFA to
ensure that fees are collected. Further, this bill
addresses lost revenues from event managers who fail to
register their horse events by enabling CDFA to suspend
them for up to a year.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/28/10)
California Horse Council (source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Carter, Chesbro,
Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore,
Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma,
Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas,
Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran,
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Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Blumenfield, Caballero, Huber, Huffman,
Norby
TSM:nl 6/28/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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