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AB-2736 Horse racing: Breeders’ Cup World Championship.(2021-2022)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 19605.74 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

19605.74.
 For every year that the organization operating the Breeders’ Cup World Championship series chooses to conduct the Breeders’ Cup World Championship  at a race meeting in California, the following, notwithstanding any other law, shall apply to the race meeting conducting the Breeders’ Cup World Championship  races on days during which Breeders’ Cup  those  races are conducted:
(a) The amounts that would have otherwise been distributed to a purse account pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 19601.02 shall be made  available to the thoroughbred racing association hosting the Breeders’ Cup World Championship and the  organization operating the Breeders’ Cup World Championship series for the purpose of promoting and supporting the Breeders’ Cup,  Cup World Championship,  including the payment of purses in Breeders’ Cup World Championship races.
(b) The thoroughbred racing association hosting the Breeders’ Cup World Championship  shall enter into a written agreement, in consultation and cooperation with the California Tourism Commission and the statewide marketing organization formed pursuant to Section 19605.73,  Commission,  with the organization that operates the Breeders’ Cup World Championship  regarding the manner in which the funds set aside to support and promote the Breeders’ Cup World Championship  are to be expended.
(c) Within 90 days after the holding of each Breeders’ Cup,  a Breeders’ Cup World Championship event,  a written report that includes a parimutuel audit shall be made to the board detailing the manner in which the set-aside funds were utilized used  to promote and support the Breeders’ Cup,  Cup World Championship,  including the payment of purses in Breeders’ Cup World Championship  races.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, on days during which Breeders’ Cup World Championship  races are conducted in California, the board may authorize parimutuel wagering on Breeders’ Cup World Championship  races to be run at the host venue and on one nonthoroughbred race specified in the host venue’s license application approved by the board. Amounts deducted and distributed pursuant to this chapter from wagering on the specified nonthoroughbred race shall be deducted and distributed as if the wagers were placed on a thoroughbred race.