Sections
47 entriesSection 19605Allows the board to authorize specified racing associations to operate satellite wagering facilities at racetracks, subject to referenced conditions. Prohibits most facilities…Section 19605.1Allows the board, with Department of Food and Agriculture approval, to authorize an eligible northern-zone fair that lacks a racing-meeting license and…Section 19605.2Allows the board, with Department of Food and Agriculture approval and subject to referenced limits, to authorize a central- or southern-zone fair…Section 19605.25Allows the board to approve up to 15 additional minisatellite wagering sites per zone, generally requiring 20-mile separation or affected-facility consent, approved…Section 19605.3Requires an approved agreement among the designated organization, racing association, and satellite wagering facility covering signal transmission, pool inclusion, and permitted fees,…Section 19605.35Exempts qualifying satellite-wagering operators from specified impact fees and reduces on-track license fees by 0.3% for northern-zone thoroughbred meetings and 0.15% for…Section 19605.4Allows night harness, quarter horse, Appaloosa, or Arabian race signals to cross northern and central/southern zones, while fair satellite facilities need not…Section 19605.45Allows satellite wagering in San Mateo County when the 2002 thoroughbred racing association is not licensed there in a later year, at…Section 19605.46Allows the Alameda County Fair, with Department of Food and Agriculture approval, board authorization, and referenced conditions, to operate two additional satellite…Section 19605.47Allows the Los Angeles County Fair, with board approval, to conduct satellite wagering at one additional location no more than 20 miles…Section 19605.51Allows a fair that operated a satellite wagering facility on July 1, 2007, with Department of Food and Agriculture approval, board authorization,…Section 19605.52Allows any fair in Kern, Shasta, or Stanislaus County to operate one satellite wagering facility within that fair's boundaries, notwithstanding the referenced…Section 19605.53Allows the California Exposition and State Fair, in lieu of a satellite facility otherwise authorizable to the Sacramento County Fair, to operate…Section 19605.54Allows a central-zone racetrack that raced in 2007 and later closed to continue satellite wagering. If its site is unavailable, the owner…Section 19605.55Allows the board, if the Solano County Fair stops live racing at its 2002 site, to authorize a replacement satellite facility on…Section 19605.6Allows the board, with Department of Food and Agriculture approval, to authorize an eligible Kern or Santa Barbara fair without a racing-meeting…Section 19605.61Allows the board's executive director, after a qualifying natural disaster interrupts live racing or signals and upon joint request by the licensed…Section 19605.7Sets northern-zone satellite-wager deductions equal to racetrack deductions and allocates them among license fees, facility commissions, registering and equine-health entities, and promotion.…Section 19605.71Sets central and southern-zone satellite-wager deductions equal to racetrack deductions and directs allocations among license fees, facility commissions, registering agencies, equine-health entities,…Section 19605.72Requires 1.25% of thoroughbred handle at a satellite facility located where northern-zone harness races are being conducted, on harness-racing days, to be…Section 19605.74Requires Breeders’ Cup set-aside funds to support and promote the event, including purses, under a written agreement among the host association and…Section 19605.75Requires thoroughbred associations and fairs to deduct an additional 0.5% from exotic parimutuel pools for workers’ compensation relief and approved safety uses.…Section 19605.76Allows a quarter-horse racing association, with horsemen’s approval, to deduct an additional 0.5% from exotic parimutuel pools for workers’ compensation costs. Unused…Section 19605.77Allows a harness racing association, with approval of the organization representing harness horsemen and horsewomen, to deduct an additional 1% from conventional…Section 19605.78Allows a fair, with the affected breed organization’s approval, to deduct an additional 0.5% from exotic parimutuel pools for races other than…Section 19605.79Allows uncommitted surplus in accounts to be reallocated to another fund on the governing organization's written request and board approval. Requires the…Section 19605.8Requires remaining thoroughbred-meeting satellite-wager funds, after specified prior distributions, to be divided 50% as commissions to the racing association and 50% as…Section 19605.9Requires central- and southern-zone satellite wagering purse funds to go to the purse program of the association conducting the meeting, except Los…Section 19606Requires remaining funds at harness, quarter-horse, Appaloosa, Arabian, mixed-breed, and fair meetings to be split 50% as association commissions and 50% as…Section 19606.1Establishes a separate Fair and Exposition Fund account for satellite-wager license fees and continuously appropriates it for specified debt, fair, safety, and…Section 19606.5Requires 50% of redistributable money from central- or southern-zone satellite wagering that remains successfully unclaimed after the specified claim period to be…Section 19606.6Requires the satellite-wager share of parimutuel breakage in the central or southern zone to be divided equally among the state as an…Section 19607Allows up to 2% of central- and southern-zone satellite handle on thoroughbred races to be redirected from commissions, purses, and owners' premiums…Section 19607.1Requires the central/southern offsite-stabling organization to submit next-year financial and operational plans by November 1, and deems multiyear facility contracts approved if…Section 19607.2Allows up to 2% of northern-zone satellite handle on thoroughbred races to be redirected from commissions, purses, and owners' premiums to an…Section 19607.3Requires the northern-zone offsite-stabling organization to submit next-year plans by November 1 and treats multiyear contracts as approved if not disapproved within…Section 19607.4Allows up to $4 million annually statewide of unused deductions for workers' compensation covering thoroughbred stable employees and jockeys, plus up to…Section 19607.5Requires overlapping northern-zone fair and thoroughbred meetings to accept both racing signals and establishes protected fair commissions, including 50% or 110% benchmarks…Section 19608Requires a horse-racing association other than a fair, when its average daily handle is at least $1.5 million, to produce a live…Section 19608.1Allows any fair or association with an average daily handle below $1.5 million to choose to produce a live audiovisual racing signal…Section 19608.2Allows racing associations and fairs providing audiovisual signals to form a board-supervised organization to operate the signal system, with board-approved participation by…Section 19608.3Requires specified northern-zone fair project funds to be allocated according to a project schedule determined by the Department of Food and Agriculture.…Section 19608.4Requires a satellite wagering facility, specified operating organization, and their subcontractors or contractors to enter a written agreement with the bona fide…Section 19608.5Establishes that specified state revenues deposited in a separate fund account and allocated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture are pledged…Section 19608.6Requires a joint powers agency seeking money connected with issuing bonds for the specified purposes to apply to the Secretary of Food…Section 19608.7Establishes legislative intent that specified revenues finance joint-powers-agency facilities and projects treated as public capital improvements. Requires deposits into the referenced fund…Section 19608.8Prohibits the state from altering the referenced funding structure, deposits, or pledged debt-service security and expenses until bonds and other indebtedness are…