Bill Text: CA AB2797 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort: tariffs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-01 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2797 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2797-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 10, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to authorize a licensed harness racing association conducting a live racing meeting to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the day that the other association conducts the Breeders’ Crown Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, the Cane Pace, the Kentucky Futurity, or the North American Cup.
This bill would additionally authorize the board to authorize an above-described association to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the day that the other association conducts the Valley Victory.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that access to broadband networks is key to creating equity and positive impacts on California education, health care, public safety, workforce development, and the economy.SEC. 2.
Section 709.1 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:709.1.
(a) A company shall no longer be a carrier of last resort, nor have any carrier of last resort obligations, in census blocks located within its telephone service territory if both of the following occur:SEC. 3.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.(a)Notwithstanding any other 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 the other association conducts the Breeders’ Crown Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, the Valley Victory, 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 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.
(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,
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.