---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horse racing: state-designated fairs: employees."
description: "Existing law requires any revenues deposited into the Fair and Exposition Fund, a continuously appropriated fund established in the State Treasury containing, among other things, a percentage of gross receipts for sales and use taxes on state-designated fair property, to only be allocated to a state-designated fair if nonmanagement employees at that state-designated fair, or nonmanagement employees at any real property of that state-designated fair that is leased to another party, are provided certain working conditions, including that the employees receive a meal period of not less than 30 minutes, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 635"
citation: "California AB 635 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Horse racing: state-designated fairs: employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa6efcc3-bc48-4148-bfb0-15331e84d668"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635"
source_hash: "23ed8e4f99ce2d995bffe3e1201aa0c60869599a2b87d8406d321442705473a4"
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 635 (20192020) — Horse racing: state-designated fairs: employees.

Existing law requires any revenues deposited into the Fair and Exposition Fund, a continuously appropriated fund established in the State Treasury containing, among other things, a percentage of gross receipts for sales and use taxes on state-designated fair property, to only be allocated to a state-designated fair if nonmanagement employees at that state-designated fair, or nonmanagement employees at any real property of that state-designated fair that is leased to another party, are provided certain working conditions, including that the employees receive a meal period of not less than 30 minutes, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635&version=20190AB63599INT)
2. **06/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635&version=20190AB63598AMD)
3. **07/08/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635&version=20190AB63597AMD)
4. **09/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635&version=20190AB63595CHP)
5. **AB635** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635)
6. **09/03/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB635&version=20190AB63596ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB635 Bigelow et al. By McGuire Urgency Clause — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 635 Bigelow Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 635 Bigelow Concurrence - Urgency Added — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bigelow — primary (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1811.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-15** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2182.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-19** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-28** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 28). `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2905.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 353, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa6efcc3-bc48-4148-bfb0-15331e84d668`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).