---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horse racing: promotional payments."
description: "Horse racing: promotional payments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 618"
citation: "California AB 618 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horse racing: promotional payments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margett"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "1999-02-19"
last_action: "1999-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/322dcea8-6aed-4566-8625-de2c16089b32"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618"
source_hash: "234ed4ae8e7f6819d29f75cb9a4f07d75a068f25da1affa48b7c93e0eba36054"
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 618 (19992000) — Horse racing: promotional payments.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/19/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618&version=19990AB61899INT)
2. **04/05/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618&version=19990AB61898AMD)
3. **04/21/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618&version=19990AB61897AMD)
4. **07/14/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618&version=19990AB61895CHP)
5. **AB618** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618)
6. **07/01/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB618&version=19990AB61896ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB618 Margett — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 618 MARGETT THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Margett — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 127, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-07-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **1999-07-01** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-07-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2034.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-23** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-06-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-05-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-04-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 4. Page 1392.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-04-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **1999-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/322dcea8-6aed-4566-8625-de2c16089b32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).