BILL NUMBER: SB 1523	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 19640 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1523, as introduced, Strickland. Horse racing: fund for retired
race horses.
   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, generally regulates horse
racing and vests the administration and enforcement of the Horse
Racing Law in the California Horse Racing Board. Existing law
provides that all money representing penalties or fines imposed by
the stewards of a horse race meeting shall be collected by the
licensee of the meeting and paid to the board within 10 days after
its close. Existing law requires the board to deposit the money in
the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund. Existing law
also requires that various fees are payable to the state as license
fees, such as the fees imposed upon fair associations for every live
racing meeting conducted by the associations.
   This bill would require the board to deposit all money
representing penalties or fines imposed by the stewards of a horse
race meeting and all money representing license fees paid to the
board into the Fund for Retired California Race Horses, which would
be established by the bill as a continuously appropriated fund,
thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the board to
adopt regulations for the management and distribution of funds
deposited in the Fund for Retired California Race Horses that would
establish a grant request process under which a portion of the funds
collected would be allocated to nonprofit organizations that operate
rehabilitation and retirement facilities located in this state for
the care of retired California race horses. The bill would also
authorize the board to enter into an agreement with the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation for the rehabilitation and retraining
of retired California race horses.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19640 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   19640.   (a)    All money representing penalties
or fines imposed by the stewards of a horse race meeting shall be
collected by the licensee of the meeting and paid to the board within
10 days after its close, and the board shall deposit all such money
in the State Treasury to the credit of the  General 
Fund    for Retired   California Race Horses,
which is hereby established  .  Notwithstanding Section
13340 of the Government Code, all moneys in the fund shall be
continuously appropriated to the board for the purposes described in
this section.  
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, all money representing license
fees paid to the board shall be deposited by the board into the fund.
 
   (c) The board shall adopt regulations for the management and
distribution of moneys deposited in the Fund for Retired California
Race Horses. Those regulations shall establish a grant request
process and conditions under which a portion of the funds collected
as provided in subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be allocated to
board-approved nonprofit organizations that operate rehabilitation
and retirement facilities located in this state for the care of
retired California race horses. The board may also enter into an
agreement with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for
the rehabilitation and retraining of retired California race horses.