BILL NUMBER: SB 899	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Denham

                        JANUARY 26, 2010

   An act to amend Section 19596.3 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 899, as introduced, Denham. Horse racing: satellite wagering:
out-of-country thoroughbred races.
   Existing law authorizes a thoroughbred racing association or fair
to distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results
of out-of-country thoroughbred races during the calendar period the
association or fair is conducting a race meeting, without the consent
of the participating horsemen's organization. These imported races
are subject to specified conditions, including the condition that the
total number of out-of-country thoroughbred races on which wagers
are allowed to be accepted statewide in any given year does not
exceed the total number of out-of-country thoroughbred races on which
wagers were accepted in 1998.
   This bill would delete that condition that limits the total number
of out-of-country thoroughbred races on which wagers are allowed to
be accepted statewide in any given year.
   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 19596.3 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19596.3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
thoroughbred racing association or fair may distribute the
audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results of out-of-country
thoroughbred races during the calendar period the association or
fair is conducting a race meeting, without the consent of the
organization that represents horsemen participating in the race
meeting. Out-of-country races shall be imported under the following
conditions:
   (a) A thoroughbred association or fair shall conduct the wagering
in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 19601,
19616, 19616.1, and 19616.2. 
   (b) The total number of out-of-country thoroughbred races on which
wagers are allowed to be accepted statewide in any given year shall
not exceed the total number of out-of-country thoroughbred races on
which wagers were accepted in 1998.  
   (c) 
    (b)  No thoroughbred association or fair may accept
wagers pursuant to this section on out-of-country races commencing
after 5:30 p.m., Pacific standard time, without the consent of the
harness or quarter horse racing association that is then conducting a
live racing meeting. 
   (d) 
    (c)  A thoroughbred racing association or fair
distributing the audiovisual signal and accepting wagers on the
results of out-of-country races pursuant to this section may execute
an agreement with an association that conducts thoroughbred races in
the southern zone to allow that association to distribute the signal
and accept wagers on the results of out-of-country thoroughbred
races, except that the license fees paid to the state shall be double
the amount paid by a quarter horse racing association specified in
subdivision (b) of Section 19605.7.