California 2009-2010, 2nd Special Session Status: To Executive

SB 16 — Horse racing: license fees.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10 Second Extraordinary Session.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2009-2010, 2nd Special Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides that if the total amount paid to the state as license fees by racing associations and fairs is less than $40,000,000 in any calendar year, all associations and fairs that conducted live racing during the year of the shortfall shall remit to the state, on a pro rata basis according to the amount paid as license fees by each association or fair, the amount necessary to bring the total amount paid to the state as license fees to $40,000,000. This bill would delete those provisions and instead provide that, notwithstanding any other provision of law and in lieu of any license fee payable to the state prescribed for or referred to in specified provisions of the Horse Racing Law, any association or fair that conducts a racing meeting shall pay a license fee to fund the California Horse Racing Board and the equine drug testing program in accordance with a formula devised by the board in consultation with the industry, as provided. The bill would provide that the license fee reductions resulting from these provisions, after payments to fund the board and the equine drug testing program, shall be distributed as specified for thoroughbred racing, quarter horse racing, harness racing, and all other breeds. Existing law provides that revenues from satellite wagering are deposited in a separate account in the Fair and Exposition Fund and that, if those revenues exceed $11,000,000 in a fiscal year, 98 percent of the excess is transferred to the Fair and Exposition Fund for specified allocations. Existing law also provides that, after the Fair and Exposition Fund receives more than $13,000,000 in a fiscal year, half of the excess is transferred to the General Fund. This bill would require, on July 1, 2009, and each July 1 thereafter, the transfer of $32,000,000 from the General Fund to be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the separate account of the Fair and Exposition Fund created for satellite wagering revenues, and would continuously appropriate those moneys for allocation for the financial support of the network of California fairs. The bill would require that all of the amount in excess of $11,000,000 be transferred to the Fair and Exposition Fund for allocation as specified in existing law, except that no part of this transferred money would be further transferred to the General Fund. Existing law requires the first $1,100,000 of all revenues distributed to racing associations for payment to the state as license fees to be deposited in a special account in the Fair and Exposition Fund and continuously appropriated to the Department of Food and Agriculture for supplementing purses at fair meetings to achieve certain specified purposes. This bill would instead require the first $1,100,000 of all funds for distribution as purses generated at satellite wagering facilities statewide from wagering on thoroughbred horse racing to be deposited in that special account for those purposes. Under existing law, revenues distributed to the state as license fees from horse racing are required to be deposited in the Fair and Exposition Fund and are continuously appropriated to the Department of Food and Agriculture for various regulatory and general governmental purposes. Because this bill would require that General Fund moneys be deposited into, and distributed from, that fund, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would become effective on July 1, 2009.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10 Second Extraordinary Session.

  2. Approved by Governor.

  3. Enrolled. To Governor at 4 p.m.

  4. In Senate. To enrollment.

  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 4. Page 68.) To Senate.

  6. Read second time.

  7. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 67.)

  8. Art. IV, Sec. 8(b), of Constitution dispensed with.

  9. Read first time.

  10. In Assembly.

  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 44.) To Assembly.

  12. Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 44.)

  13. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Page 44.)

  14. (Corrected February 23.)

  15. Read third time. Amended. (Page 44.)

  16. Placed on third reading.

  17. Read second time.

  18. Withdrawn from committee.

  19. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS.

Sponsors

  • Galgiani · Cosponsor
  • Ashburn · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 120 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Ashburn

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Galgiani

Not signed on (120)

120 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

SB 16 Ashburn Senate Third Reading By GALGIANI Second Extraordinary Session

Passed 69 Yea · 4 Nay · 19 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 643017
Democratic 4001
Republican 1101
Total 694019
% of votes cast 75%4%0%21%
How each member voted (92)
Member Party Vote
Emmerson — Yea
Eng — Not Voting
Evans — Yea
Feuer — Nay
DeVore — Nay
Furutani — Not Voting
Galgiani — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Bill — Yea
Berryhill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Berryhill — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huber — Yea
Knight — Yea
Krekorian — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Gaines — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Yea
Coto — Yea
Davis — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Nava — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Price — Yea
Audra — Yea
Yamada — Not Voting
Charles — Not Voting
De — Not Voting
La — Not Voting
Torre — Not Voting
De — Not Voting
Leon — Not Voting
John — Not Voting
A. — Not Voting
Perez — Not Voting
Jeffries — Not Voting
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Nay
Solorio — Yea
Bass — Yea
Duvall — Not Voting
Swanson — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Tran — Yea
Adams — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Blakeslee — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Not Voting
Harkey — Not Voting
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Logue — Yea
Ma — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Ruskin — Not Voting
Smyth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Villines — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Not Voting
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Senate 3rd Supp 1 SB16 Ducheny

Passed 35 Yea · 2 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 31203
Democratic 3000
Republican 1000
Total 35203
% of votes cast 88%5%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Wyland — Yea
Cogdill — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Cox — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Yea
Florez — Yea
Yee — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Benoit — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Runner — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hollingsworth — Nay
Huff — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Dutton — Not Voting
Oropeza — Not Voting
Simitian — Not Voting
Walters — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Aanestad — Nay
Harman — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Romero — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wright — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 16 do?
Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides that if the total amount paid to the state as license fees by racing associations and fairs is less than $40,000,000 in any calendar year, all associations and fairs that conducted live racing during the year of the shortfall shall remit to the state, on a pro rata basis according to the amount paid as license fees by each association or fair, the amount necessary to bring the total amount paid to the state as license fees to $40,000,000. This bill would delete those provisions and instead provide that, notwithstanding any other provision of law and in lieu of any license fee payable to the state prescribed for or referred to in specified provisions of the Horse Racing Law, any association or fair that conducts a racing meeting shall pay a license fee to fund the California Horse Racing Board and the equine drug testing program in accordance with a formula devised by the board in consultation with the industry, as provided. The bill would provide that the license fee reductions resulting from these provisions, after payments to fund the board and the equine drug testing program, shall be distributed as specified for thoroughbred racing, quarter horse racing, harness racing, and all other breeds. Existing law provides that revenues from satellite wagering are deposited in a separate account in the Fair and Exposition Fund and that, if those revenues exceed $11,000,000 in a fiscal year, 98 percent of the excess is transferred to the Fair and Exposition Fund for specified allocations. Existing law also provides that, after the Fair and Exposition Fund receives more than $13,000,000 in a fiscal year, half of the excess is transferred to the General Fund. This bill would require, on July 1, 2009, and each July 1 thereafter, the transfer of $32,000,000 from the General Fund to be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the separate account of the Fair and Exposition Fund created for satellite wagering revenues, and would continuously appropriate those moneys for allocation for the financial support of the network of California fairs. The bill would require that all of the amount in excess of $11,000,000 be transferred to the Fair and Exposition Fund for allocation as specified in existing law, except that no part of this transferred money would be further transferred to the General Fund. Existing law requires the first $1,100,000 of all revenues distributed to racing associations for payment to the state as license fees to be deposited in a special account in the Fair and Exposition Fund and continuously appropriated to the Department of Food and Agriculture for supplementing purses at fair meetings to achieve certain specified purposes. This bill would instead require the first $1,100,000 of all funds for distribution as purses generated at satellite wagering facilities statewide from wagering on thoroughbred horse racing to be deposited in that special account for those purposes. Under existing law, revenues distributed to the state as license fees from horse racing are required to be deposited in the Fair and Exposition Fund and are continuously appropriated to the Department of Food and Agriculture for various regulatory and general governmental purposes. Because this bill would require that General Fund moneys be deposited into, and distributed from, that fund, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would become effective on July 1, 2009.
Who sponsors SB 16?
SB 16 is sponsored by Galgiani and Ashburn.
What is the current status of SB 16?
This bill died with 2009-2010, 2nd Special Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 16?
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