Amended in Assembly March 28, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2592

Introduced by Assembly begin delete Member end delete begin insert Members end insert Chesbro begin insert and Levine end insert

February 21, 2014

begin delete An act to amend Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. end delete begin insert An act to amend Section 19530 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2592, as amended, Chesbro. begin delete Solid waste: management. end delete begin insert California Horse Racing Board: racing dates: economic analysis. end insert

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Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides for the operation of live horse racing in this state and for wagering thereon, and for the operation of satellite wagering facilities, subject to regulation and oversight by the California Horse Racing Board. That law also requires the board to allocate racing weeks to an applicant, to specify racing days, dates, and hours for horse racing meetings as will be in the public interest, and provides that the decision of the board is subject to change, limitation, or restriction only by the board.

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This bill would require the board, when it receives a proposal from an applicant to make a substantial change, as defined, to the number of racing dates allocated to a fair or racetrack, to conduct an economic analysis of the proposal’s effect on other fairs and racetracks and to consider all proposed alternative racing dates based on that economic analysis before the board votes on the proposal or any alternative option to the original proposal.

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Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and local agencies, when implementing the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, to promote certain waste management practices in a specified order of priority.

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This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those requirements.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 19530 of the end insert begin insert Business and Professions
Code end insert begin insert is amended to read: end insert

19530.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert The board shall have the authority to allocate racing
weeks to an applicant or applicants pursuant to the provisions of
this article and Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 19540) and
to specify begin delete such end delete begin insert those end insert racing days, dates, and hours for horse racing
meetings as will be in the public interest, and will subserve the
purposes of this chapter. The decision of the board as to begin delete such end delete racing
days, dates, and hours shall be subject to change, begin delete limitation end delete
begin insert limitation, end insert or restriction only by the board. begin delete No end delete begin insert A end insert municipality or
county shall begin insert not end insert adopt or enforce any ordinance or regulation begin delete which end delete
begin insert that end insert has or may have the effect of directly or indirectly regulating,
begin delete limiting end delete begin insert limiting, end insert or restricting the racing days and dates of horse
racing meetings.

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(b) When the board receives a proposal from an applicant to
make a substantial change to the number of racing dates allocated
to a fair or racetrack, the board shall conduct an economic analysis
of the proposal’s effect on other fairs and racetracks and shall
consider all proposed alternative racing dates based on that
economic analysis before the board votes on the proposal or any
alternative option to the original proposal.

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(c) As used in this section, “substantial change” means any
race date change that changes the dates more than three days from
the prior year’s horse racing dates.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

40051.  

In implementing this division, the department and local
agencies shall do both of the following:

(a) Promote the following waste management practices in order
of priority:

(1) Source reduction.

(2) Recycling and composting.

(3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally
safe land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county.

(b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling,
and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid
waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal.
For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled,
or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe
transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of
those practices.

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