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51 entriesSection 19610Requires every racing association to deduct 15% from conventional parimutuel pools and 16.75% from exotic pools, except harness racing meetings must deduct…Section 19610.1Requires every harness-racing association that deducts 17.75% of total exotic parimutuel pool handle to use 1% of the total amount handled in…Section 19610.2Requires every racing association to deduct 0.1% of total handle. From the amount deducted on on-track wagers, requires 33 hundredths to go…Section 19610.3Allows a racing association to elect permanently to deduct up to 0.33 of 1% of wagers for specified possessory-interest taxes and local…Section 19610.4Allows associations and fairs to elect an additional 0.33% deduction from parimutuel wagers within their enclosure or satellite facility, first for possessory-interest…Section 19610.6Requires the 22nd District Agricultural Association, instead of specified deductions, to deduct 0.33% of satellite parimutuel wagers; 40% goes to Del Mar…Section 19610.8Allows the board, on joint request of the wager-taking association or fair and participating horsemen's organization, to set proposition-wager or new-wager deductions…Section 19611Requires live thoroughbred associations to retain 1.3% of non-satellite handle in the northern zone and 2% in central or southern zones as…Section 19611.5Allows a non-fair thoroughbred association to deduct up to an additional 3% from approved multiple-wager pools, split 50% commissions and 50% purses,…Section 19612Sets a 0.4% daily license fee for quarter-horse and harness meetings and allocates remaining funds 55/45, 59.5/40.5, or 50/50 as specified. Allows…Section 19612.1Allows harness, quarter-horse, Arabian, or Appaloosa associations over $750,000 average daily handle to deduct up to 3% from approved multiple-wager pools, with…Section 19612.2Allows qualifying harness, quarter-horse, Arabian, or Appaloosa associations averaging $750,000 or less in daily handle, except associations subject to the stated fair-meeting…Section 19612.3Sets an additional 1% retention from the parimutuel pool for harness racing associations. Associations not conducting the specified meetings must divide that…Section 19612.6Sets distributions after the state license fee equally between commissions and purses for harness meetings, by agreement for quarter-horse, Appaloosa, and mule…Section 19612.7Allows a portion of harness-racing purse money to pay for workers' compensation coverage for stable employees and drivers of licensed standardbred trainers.…Section 19612.8Requires every association conducting a racing meeting to pay at least the actual amount needed to cover compensation and fringe-benefit costs for…Section 19612.9Requires unclaimed refunds, subject to the stated exception, to fund negotiation of a health and welfare agreement lasting at least three years…Section 19613Requires purse deductions to benefit meeting horsemen and allows workers' compensation costs. For nonfair thoroughbred meetings, sets owners' administrative payment at up…Section 19613.1Requires the board to determine which thoroughbred-racing matters are negotiated by the owners' organization and which by the trainers' organization. Generally assigns…Section 19613.2Requires any horsemen's, owners', or trainers' organization receiving a distribution or deduction to be incorporated in California, represent a majority for its…Section 19613.5Allows amounts otherwise deducted for license fees, commissions, and purses at a racing meeting to be retained and distributed first to cover…Section 19613.6Allows the thoroughbred owners' organization to contribute the purse from one annual race by each licensed thoroughbred association or fair to a…Section 19613.8Requires an exclusive collective bargaining agent, within 60 days after a statewide majority of backstretch workers chooses representation and while that majority…Section 19614Sets fair live-racing deductions, except qualifying associations, at 1% for the state and 0.48% for the registering agency, then splits remaining funds…Section 19614.2Allows a fair or specified association to deduct up to 3% from multiple-wager pools, distributing 52.5% as purses and 47.5% as commissions…Section 19614.3Allows a racing association and horsemen's organization to agree to reduce parimutuel deductions for purses and commissions, provided only those funds are…Section 19614.4Requires the official registering agency to pay a 20% owner premium, measured against the winner's purse share, for a qualifying winning California-bred…Section 19614.6Allows a central-zone county fair that raced before January 1, 1980, beginning in 2006, to retain license fees above its 2004 level…Section 19615Requires racing associations to pay weekly license fees based on board-approved estimated handle and allocate purses under an approved program. Requires payment…Section 19616Requires wagers on specified out-of-state or out-of-country races that are not included in the host's pools to be placed in separate parimutuel…Section 19616.1Allows an association accepting specified out-of-state or out-of-country wagers included in the host's pools to deduct, with board permission, the host entity's…Section 19616.2Requires an association accepting wagers on an out-of-state feature race in the out-of-state operator's parimutuel pool, except under the referenced exception, to…Section 19616.51Sets each racing association's or fair's license fee as its board-formula share funding the board and equine drug testing, with later funding…Section 19617Defines breeder, qualifying race, eligible earnings, and eligible thoroughbred stallion for specified awards. Sets claiming minimums at $40,000 central/southern and $20,000 northern,…Section 19617.2Requires thoroughbred meetings to deposit 0.54% of ontrack handle within seven days after meetings of 20 days or less; longer meetings deposit…Section 19617.3Requires paint-racing associations to make handle/purse deposits; 20-day-or-shorter meetings deposit within seven days after closing, while longer ones start within 27 racing…Section 19617.4Requires the official registering agency to invest award funds and include interest in distributable deposits. Bars additional assessments against associations or the…Section 19617.5Requires quarter-horse and harness associations to pay specified sums from license-fee, commission, and purse deductions in the same proportions as those distributions.…Section 19617.6Requires a harness-meeting licensee to pay a registered California-bred standardbred's owner 10% of first-place purse money from specified purse deductions. Exempts California…Section 19617.7Requires quarter-horse associations to make handle/purse deposits; 20-day-or-shorter meetings deposit within seven days after closing, while longer ones start within 27 racing…Section 19617.75Establishes legislative findings supporting California-bred quarter-horse racing and legislative intent that the registering agency maintain a separate account for specified funds to…Section 19617.8Requires Arabian-racing associations to make handle/purse deposits; 20-day-or-shorter meetings deposit within seven days after closing, while longer ones start within 27 racing…Section 19617.9Requires Appaloosa-racing associations to make handle/purse deposits; 20-day-or-shorter meetings deposit within seven days after closing, while longer ones start within 27 racing…Section 19618Prohibits racing-meeting operators and horse owners or their representatives from paying, soliciting, or receiving purses or other horsemen consideration not expressly authorized…Section 19618.1Exempts payments by a licensed northern-zone harness racing association or by any fair, when made in connection with promotional contests or sponsorship…Section 19618.2Exempts two categories of payments from the referenced subdivisions: payments by a licensed southern-zone quarter-horse racing association to horsemen participating in its…Section 19619Establishes the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program for eligible offspring of specified registered stallions and places administration with a five-member committee plus…Section 19619.1Requires funds from harness meetings that remain undistributed as specified horsemen's purses or breeder awards 180 days after the conclusion of a…Section 19619.2Allows purse funds generated under the listed provisions to supplement purses distributed by the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program despite other chapter…Section 19619.6Requires every association or fair that supplies a live audiovisual racing signal to a satellite wagering facility under the referenced provisions to…Section 19619.7Requires the board, no later than July 1, 2008, to provide a reasonable riding fee to the jockey whose horse finishes fourth…