BILL NUMBER: SB 732 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 11, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Senator Wyland
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
An act to amend Section 19607 19535
of the Business and Professions Code, relating to satellite
wagering horse racing .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 732, as amended, Wyland. Satellite wagering: funding
for offsite stabling. Horse racing: northern zone:
vanning of starters.
Existing law requires the California Horse Racing Board to
determine the number of usable stalls that each association or fair
is required to make available and maintain in order to conduct a
racing meeting. Existing law divides the state into 3
geographical zones for purposes of regulating horse racing, including
the northern zone, as specified, and, with respect to racing
meetings conducted in the northern zone, requires the association or
fair conducting the meeting to provide all stabling required by the
board without cost to participating horsemen. Existing law
requires, when satellite wagering is conducted in certain
areas, as specified, that an amount not to exceed 1.25 % of the total
amount handled by all of those satellite wagering facilities be
deducted from the funds otherwise allocated for distribution as
commissions, purses, and owners' premiums and instead distributed to
an organization formed and operated by thoroughbred racing
associations, fairs conducting thoroughbred racing, and the
organization representing thoroughbred horsemen and horsewomen, to
administer a fund to provide reimbursement for offsite stabling at
board-approved auxiliary training facilities for additional stalls
beyond the number of usable stalls the association or fair is
required to make available and maintain, and for the vanning of
starters from these additional stalls on racing days for thoroughbred
horses. with respect to northern zone thoroughbred
meetings only, the association conducting the meeting to provide, at
the option of the horse owner, vanning of participating racehorses
from any board-approved offsite stabling facility in the northern
zone.
This bill would require that the off-site stabling at
board-approved training facilities for which reimbursement is
provided also be located within a reasonable travel distance from the
association or fair delete the latter requirement and
instead authorize with respect to the northern zone and subject to
the availability of the specified funds, at the option of the horse
owner, vanning of participating racehorses from any board-approved
offsite stabling facility .
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 19535 of the
Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
19535. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the
time the board allocates racing weeks, it shall determine the number
of useable stalls that each association or fair shall make available
and maintain in order to conduct the racing meeting. The minimum
number of stalls may be at the site of the racing meeting or at
board-approved offsite locations.
(b) With respect to racing meetings conducted in the northern
zone, the association or fair conducting the meeting shall provide
all stabling required by the board pursuant to subdivision (a)
without cost to participating horsemen. Offsite stabling shall be at
a board approved facility or facilities selected by the association
or fair, with the agreement of the organization representing horsemen
participating at the meeting. If there is a disagreement between the
association or fair and the organization representing the majority
of horsemen participating at the meeting with respect to the
selection of offsite stabling facilities, the board, at the request
of the association or fair or the organization representing the
majority of horsemen participating at the meeting, shall promptly
determine the board-approved facility or facilities at which offsite
stabling shall be made available. The organization representing
horsemen participating at the meeting and the association or fair
shall mutually agree on the criteria and selection of horses that may
use stalls required pursuant to this section. With respect
to northern zone thoroughbred meetings only, the association shall
also provide, at the option of the horse owner, vanning of
participating racehorses from any board-approved offsite stabling
facility in the northern zone. Fairs Northern zone
racing associations or fairs may provide, subject to the
availability of funds pursuant to Sections 19607, 19607.1, 19607.2,
and 19607.3, at the option of the horse owner, vanning of
participating racehorses from any board-approved offsite stabling
facility.
(c) (1) With respect to racing meetings
conducted in the central or southern zones, all costs associated with
the maintenance of the useable stalls for the racing meeting shall
be borne by the association or fair conducting the meeting, and, with
respect to useable stalls at an offsite location, the association or
fair may be required, by order of the board, to bear the costs of
vanning from the offsite location to the racing meeting. However,
with respect to any racing association in the central or southern
zone that conducted a racing meeting in 1986, if the number of
useable stalls made available onsite by a racing association during a
racing meeting is less than 95 percent of the number of useable
stalls made available onsite by that racing association during its
1986 racing meeting, the racing association shall reimburse the
facility providing offsite stabling for the difference in cost
between the actual number of useable stalls made available and 95
percent of the useable stalls made available in 1986.
The
( 2) The racing association shall,
in addition, reimburse the owner for vanning to the onsite location
with respect to those horses stabled at an offsite location
necessitated by the failure of a racing association to maintain 95
percent of the useable stalls made available by that racing
association during its 1986 racing meeting.
SECTION 1. Section 19607 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
19607. Notwithstanding Sections 19605.8 and 19605.9, when
satellite wagering is conducted on thoroughbred races at associations
or fairs in the central or southern zone, an amount not to exceed
1.25 percent of the total amount handled by all of those satellite
wagering facilities shall be deducted from the funds otherwise
allocated for distribution as commissions, purses, and owners'
premiums and instead distributed to an organization formed and
operated by thoroughbred racing associations, fairs conducting
thoroughbred racing, and the organization representing thoroughbred
horsemen and horsewomen, with each party having meaningful
representation on the board of the organization, to administer,
pursuant to supervision of the board, a fund to provide reimbursement
for offsite stabling at board-approved auxiliary training facilities
located within a reasonable travel distance from the association or
fair for additional stalls beyond the number of usable stalls the
association or fair is required to make available and maintain
pursuant to Section 19535, and for the vanning of starters from these
additional stalls on racing days for thoroughbred horses.