Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2270.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Horse racing: out-of-country harness racing."
+description: "Under existing law, the California Horse Racing Board is authorized to permit a harness or quarter horse association conducting a horse race to accept wagers on the results of out-of-state, out-of-country, and other designated harness or quarter horse races, if specified conditions are met, including that the association conducts at least 7 live races and imports not more than 10 races on live racing days. A violation of the Horse Racing Law is a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2270"
+citation: "California AB 2270 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
+subjects: ["Horse racing: out-of-country harness racing."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-02-13"
+last_action: "2018-07-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/681fa106-879d-4a80-97cc-110cef003d69"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2270"
+source_hash: "db15f1013e9603853837debd887c35f47870bcc97e75895068b8435d03d01941"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2270 (20172018) — Horse racing: out-of-country harness racing.
+
+Under existing law, the California Horse Racing Board is authorized to permit a harness or quarter horse association conducting a horse race to accept wagers on the results of out-of-state, out-of-country, and other designated harness or quarter horse races, if specified conditions are met, including that the association conducts at least 7 live races and imports not more than 10 races on live racing days. A violation of the Horse Racing Law is a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2270&version=20170AB227099INT)
+2. **07/16/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2270&version=20170AB227097CHP)
+3. **AB2270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2270)
+4. **07/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2270&version=20170AB227098ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB2270 McCarty et al. By Pan — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2270 MCCARTY Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCarty — primary (person)
+- Cooley — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
+- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4899.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5043.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2018-07-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 100, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/681fa106-879d-4a80-97cc-110cef003d69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+