California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 309 — State Athletic Commission.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 370, Statutes of 2013.

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 15, 2013. Enacted.

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  • 4 sponsors

    1 primary, 3 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 10 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Under existing law, the State Athletic Commission Act, the State Athletic Commission has jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, and all forms and combinations of forms of full contact martial arts contests and is required to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2016. Existing law requires the commission, at its regularly scheduled meetings, to invite testimony from boxing stakeholders to identify actions that may lead to greater opportunities for its licensees to participate in major professional championship boxing contests in the state. Existing law requires the commission to annually make recommendations, based on that testimony, to the Governor and the Legislature. This bill would delete that recommendation requirement. Existing law authorizes the commission to license professional and amateur boxers, professional and amateur martial arts fighters, and booking agents, managers of professional boxers and professional martial arts fighters, trainers, chief seconds, and seconds of each. Under existing law, only a natural person may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. This bill would eliminate that natural person limitation on who may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. Under existing law, the commission may authorize a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club or organization, upon approval of its bylaws, to administer the commission's rules for amateur boxing, wrestling, and full contact martial arts contests subject to a specified finding by the commission. This bill would additionally authorize a sanctioning body to administer its rules. The bill would authorize the commission to rescind an authorization to a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club, organization, or sanctioning body to administer its rules. Existing law prohibits a professional boxer from sparring for training purposes with any person not licensed as a professional boxer or who does not have a sparring permit. Existing law prohibits a person from conducting or operating a professional boxers' training gymnasium unless he or she has been issued a license by the commission. Under existing law, the failure of a licensed training gymnasium owner or operator, fighter, boxer, trainer, second, or manager to report to the commission an injury or knockout of a licensed boxer or fighter or the holder of a sparring permit is grounds for the suspension of his or her license. This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would prohibit a person from training a professional boxer or kickboxer or martial arts athlete unless he or she has been licensed by the commission. The bill would make the application and renewal fee for a licensed professional trainer $200. The bill would define a "professional trainer" as someone who is responsible for the day-to-day training of those aforementioned athletes and possesses a minimum of 5 years experience in combative sports. The bill would authorize only licensed professional trainers to make a recommendation to the commission on whether a contestant is prepared for his or her first amateur mixed martial arts bout or to turn professional in boxing, kickboxing, or mixed martial arts. The bill would require a professional trainer to be present in the corner of the contestant unless otherwise authorized by the commission or the executive officer. The bill would make the failure of a licensed professional trainer, fighter, boxer, second, or manager to report to the commission and a database designated by the commission an injury or knockout grounds for the suspension or revocation of his or her license. Under existing law, the commission requires, as a condition of licensure and as a part of the application process and for renewal of a license, the examination by a licensed physician and surgeon who specializes in neurology and neurosurgery of each applicant for a license as a professional athlete or contestant, in addition to any other medical examinations. Existing law requires the cost of the examinations to be paid from assessments on any one or more of the following: promoters of professional matches, managers, and professional athletes or other contestants licensed under the act. Existing law requires these assessments to be deposited in the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account. This bill would specify that the administrative costs associated with managing and distributing the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account shall be limited to no more than 20% of the prior year's contributions. The bill would authorize the commission to use no more than 30% of moneys from the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund special neurological examinations and new diagnostic imaging and testing to be used in relation to those required examinations. Existing law requires the commission to license referees. Existing law requires a referee to be in attendance at every boxing contest and to enforce the rules of the commission at every boxing contest. Existing law requires a licensed physician and surgeon to observe the physical condition of the contestant during the contest. Existing law prohibits a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not participated in a clinic sponsored by the commission in the preceding 6 months. Existing law authorizes the commission to pay any necessary and permitted travel expenses of referees and physicians and surgeons who attend such clinics. This bill would instead prohibit a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not completed, within the preceding 6 months, a clinic offered by a provider approved by the commission, as specified. The bill would authorize a clinic provider to charge a referee or physician and surgeon participating in a clinic a reasonable fee. Existing federal law requires a state boxing commission to issue to each professional boxer who registers with it an identification card containing specified information and requires each professional boxer to renew his or her identification card at least once every 4 years. This bill would require the commission to charge a $20 fee to issue federal identification cards and would require those cards to be reissued once every 4 years. Existing law requires every person who conducts a contest or wrestling exhibition, within 5 working days after the determination of every contest or wrestling exhibition for which admission is charged and received, to furnish to the commission, among other things, a fee of 5% of the amount paid for admission to the contest or wrestling exhibition, but prohibits the fee from exceeding $100,000, and a fee of up to 5%, as specified, for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights, except that this fee is prohibited from being less than $1,000 or more than $25,000. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation. If the fee for a boxing contest exceeds $70,000, existing law requires that 12 of the amount in excess of $70,000 be paid to the commission and 12 to the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law revises this requirement if a specified report recommends expansion of the application of the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law prohibits the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $500. This bill would instead require those fees to be furnished within 72 hours. The bill would require the commission to report to the Legislature on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation during its next sunset review. The bill would increase the limit on the 5% fee for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights to $35,000. The bill would delete the provisions that require revision of the distribution of fees in excess of $70,000 based on a specified report. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $1,000. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for a professional contest or exhibition from being less than $1,250. Existing law requires the administrative costs associated with investing, managing, and distributing the Boxers' Pension Fund to be limited to no more than 20% of the average annual contribution made to the fund in the previous 2 years, not including any investment income derived from the corpus of the fund. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the impact of these provisions during the next regularly scheduled sunset review. This bill would limit those administrative costs to no more than 2% of the corpus of the fund and would require that report to be submitted to the Legislature. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18646 of the Business and Professions Code made by this bill and AB 1186 to take effect if both bills are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last. Because a violation of the bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 370, Statutes of 2013.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 2379.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3184.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended. (Page 3017.)

  9. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Read third time and amended. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 2960.)

  11. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  12. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  13. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 30).

  14. Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  17. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P.

  18. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P.

  19. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M.

  20. Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and B.,P. & C.P.

  21. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  22. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 1101.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  23. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  24. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1011.) (May 23).

  25. Set for hearing May 23.

  26. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  27. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  28. Set for hearing May 13.

  29. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 733.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  30. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  31. Set for hearing April 29.

  32. Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  33. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

  34. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Alejo · Cosponsor
  • Ian Calderon · Cosponsor
  • Gordon · Cosponsor
  • Lieu · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 3 co-sponsors · 118 not signed on · 5 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Lieu

Co-sponsors (3)

  • Alejo
  • Ian Calderon
  • Gordon

Not signed on (118)

118 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Supp 1 SB309 Lieu Concurrence

Passed 36 Yea · 3 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 33300
Democratic 3000
Total 36300
% of votes cast 92%8%0%0%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
De León — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Monning — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — Yea
Knight — Nay
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Yee — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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SB 309 Lieu Senate Third Reading By BONTA

Passed 76 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 69002
Democratic 4000
Republican 3000
Total 76002
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Holden — Yea
Linder — Yea
Mansoor — Not Voting
Morrell — Yea
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Williams — Yea
Campos — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Allen — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Fong — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Daly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Levine — Yea
Logue — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Chau — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Donnelly — Not Voting
Rendon — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Fox — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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SB 309 Lieu Senate Third Reading By BONTA Amend By BONTA Set #1

Passed 52 Yea · 25 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 482201
Democratic 4000
Republican 0300
Total 522501
% of votes cast 67%32%0%1%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Nay
Ammiano — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Linder — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Mansoor — Nay
Nazarian — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Ting — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Daly — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Hall — Not Voting
Harkey — Nay
Bocanegra — Yea
Levine — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Logue — Nay
Allen — Nay
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Morrell — Nay
Mullin — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Alejo — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Conway — Nay
Cooley — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Olsen — Nay
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Holden — Yea
Fong — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Fox — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Hagman — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 16 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15001
Democratic 1000
Total 16001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Linder — Yea
Weber — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Holden — Yea
Campos — Yea
Donnelly — Not Voting
Eggman — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Passed 14 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 13000
Republican 1000
Total 14000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (14)
Member Party Vote
Maienschein — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Holden — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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3rd Reading

Passed 36 Yea · 3 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 33300
Democratic 3000
Total 36300
% of votes cast 92%8%0%0%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Nay
Knight — Yea
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Price — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
Wright — Yea
Cannella — Yea
De León — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Block — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wolk — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Yee — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Hill — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
De León — Yea
Lara — Yea
Walters — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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What does SB 309 do?
Under existing law, the State Athletic Commission Act, the State Athletic Commission has jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, and all forms and combinations of forms of full contact martial arts contests and is required to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2016. Existing law requires the commission, at its regularly scheduled meetings, to invite testimony from boxing stakeholders to identify actions that may lead to greater opportunities for its licensees to participate in major professional championship boxing contests in the state. Existing law requires the commission to annually make recommendations, based on that testimony, to the Governor and the Legislature. This bill would delete that recommendation requirement. Existing law authorizes the commission to license professional and amateur boxers, professional and amateur martial arts fighters, and booking agents, managers of professional boxers and professional martial arts fighters, trainers, chief seconds, and seconds of each. Under existing law, only a natural person may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. This bill would eliminate that natural person limitation on who may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. Under existing law, the commission may authorize a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club or organization, upon approval of its bylaws, to administer the commission's rules for amateur boxing, wrestling, and full contact martial arts contests subject to a specified finding by the commission. This bill would additionally authorize a sanctioning body to administer its rules. The bill would authorize the commission to rescind an authorization to a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club, organization, or sanctioning body to administer its rules. Existing law prohibits a professional boxer from sparring for training purposes with any person not licensed as a professional boxer or who does not have a sparring permit. Existing law prohibits a person from conducting or operating a professional boxers' training gymnasium unless he or she has been issued a license by the commission. Under existing law, the failure of a licensed training gymnasium owner or operator, fighter, boxer, trainer, second, or manager to report to the commission an injury or knockout of a licensed boxer or fighter or the holder of a sparring permit is grounds for the suspension of his or her license. This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would prohibit a person from training a professional boxer or kickboxer or martial arts athlete unless he or she has been licensed by the commission. The bill would make the application and renewal fee for a licensed professional trainer $200. The bill would define a "professional trainer" as someone who is responsible for the day-to-day training of those aforementioned athletes and possesses a minimum of 5 years experience in combative sports. The bill would authorize only licensed professional trainers to make a recommendation to the commission on whether a contestant is prepared for his or her first amateur mixed martial arts bout or to turn professional in boxing, kickboxing, or mixed martial arts. The bill would require a professional trainer to be present in the corner of the contestant unless otherwise authorized by the commission or the executive officer. The bill would make the failure of a licensed professional trainer, fighter, boxer, second, or manager to report to the commission and a database designated by the commission an injury or knockout grounds for the suspension or revocation of his or her license. Under existing law, the commission requires, as a condition of licensure and as a part of the application process and for renewal of a license, the examination by a licensed physician and surgeon who specializes in neurology and neurosurgery of each applicant for a license as a professional athlete or contestant, in addition to any other medical examinations. Existing law requires the cost of the examinations to be paid from assessments on any one or more of the following: promoters of professional matches, managers, and professional athletes or other contestants licensed under the act. Existing law requires these assessments to be deposited in the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account. This bill would specify that the administrative costs associated with managing and distributing the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account shall be limited to no more than 20% of the prior year's contributions. The bill would authorize the commission to use no more than 30% of moneys from the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund special neurological examinations and new diagnostic imaging and testing to be used in relation to those required examinations. Existing law requires the commission to license referees. Existing law requires a referee to be in attendance at every boxing contest and to enforce the rules of the commission at every boxing contest. Existing law requires a licensed physician and surgeon to observe the physical condition of the contestant during the contest. Existing law prohibits a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not participated in a clinic sponsored by the commission in the preceding 6 months. Existing law authorizes the commission to pay any necessary and permitted travel expenses of referees and physicians and surgeons who attend such clinics. This bill would instead prohibit a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not completed, within the preceding 6 months, a clinic offered by a provider approved by the commission, as specified. The bill would authorize a clinic provider to charge a referee or physician and surgeon participating in a clinic a reasonable fee. Existing federal law requires a state boxing commission to issue to each professional boxer who registers with it an identification card containing specified information and requires each professional boxer to renew his or her identification card at least once every 4 years. This bill would require the commission to charge a $20 fee to issue federal identification cards and would require those cards to be reissued once every 4 years. Existing law requires every person who conducts a contest or wrestling exhibition, within 5 working days after the determination of every contest or wrestling exhibition for which admission is charged and received, to furnish to the commission, among other things, a fee of 5% of the amount paid for admission to the contest or wrestling exhibition, but prohibits the fee from exceeding $100,000, and a fee of up to 5%, as specified, for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights, except that this fee is prohibited from being less than $1,000 or more than $25,000. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation. If the fee for a boxing contest exceeds $70,000, existing law requires that 12 of the amount in excess of $70,000 be paid to the commission and 12 to the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law revises this requirement if a specified report recommends expansion of the application of the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law prohibits the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $500. This bill would instead require those fees to be furnished within 72 hours. The bill would require the commission to report to the Legislature on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation during its next sunset review. The bill would increase the limit on the 5% fee for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights to $35,000. The bill would delete the provisions that require revision of the distribution of fees in excess of $70,000 based on a specified report. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $1,000. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for a professional contest or exhibition from being less than $1,250. Existing law requires the administrative costs associated with investing, managing, and distributing the Boxers' Pension Fund to be limited to no more than 20% of the average annual contribution made to the fund in the previous 2 years, not including any investment income derived from the corpus of the fund. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the impact of these provisions during the next regularly scheduled sunset review. This bill would limit those administrative costs to no more than 2% of the corpus of the fund and would require that report to be submitted to the Legislature. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18646 of the Business and Professions Code made by this bill and AB 1186 to take effect if both bills are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last. Because a violation of the bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors SB 309?
SB 309 is sponsored by Alejo, Ian Calderon, Gordon, and Lieu.
What is the current status of SB 309?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 15, 2013. Enacted.
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