Bill Text: CA AB2619 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Horse racing: quarter horse races.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-11-30 - Died on Senate inactive file. [AB2619 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2619-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2619 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gray
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 19596 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to horse racing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2619, as introduced, Gray. Horse racing: quarter horse races.
Existing law establishes the California Horse Racing Board, and
gives that board specified duties, including authorizing a licensed
quarter horse racing association that is conducting a live racing
meeting in this state to accept wagers on specified races, including
the American Quarter Horse Racing Challenge.
This bill would authorize the board to authorize a licensed
quarter horse racing association that is conducting a live racing
meeting in this state to accept wagers on a quarter horse stakes race
with a purse equal to or greater than $100,000. The bill would also
make nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 19596 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
19596. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the board may do any of the following:
(1) Authorize a licensed harness racing association that is
conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on
the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the
day that other association conducts the Breeders' Crown Stakes, the
Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, the Cane Pace, the Kentucky
Futurity, or the North American Cup.
(2) Authorize a licensed quarter horse racing association that is
conducting a live racing meeting in this state to accept wagers on
either any of the following:
(A) Races conducted by the racing association that conducts the
American Quarter Horse Racing Challenge, if the races are conducted
on the same day as the American Quarter Horse Racing Challenge.
(B) The full card of races conducted by another racing association
on the day that other association conducts the Texas Classic
Futurity and Remington Park Futurity.
(C) A quarter horse stakes race with a purse equal to or greater
than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(3) Authorize the inclusion of wagers authorized pursuant to this
section in the parimutuel pools of the out-of-state association that
conducts the races on which the wagers are placed.
(b) The board authorization may be granted under this section only
if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The authorization complies with federal laws, including, but
not limited to, Chapter 57 (commencing with Section 3001) of
Title 15 of the United States Code the Interstate
Horseracing Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq) .
(2) Wagering is offered only within the racing enclosure and only
within seven days of the running of the out-of-state race.
