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Bill	Horse racing: workers' compensation.	Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes a quarter horse racing association to deduct an additional 0.5% of the total amount handled in its exotic parimutuel pools and a harness racing association to deduct an additional 1% of the total amount handled in conventional parimutuel pools of harness races, under certain conditions, for workers' compensation insurance costs of trainers and owners, as specified, with any funds not expended for this purpose in the year in which they are collected to either be used for the following year's workers' compensation costs or to benefit the purse pool, as specified. If the racing association and the organization representing horsemen and horsewomen cannot agree on the manner of distribution of these funds to defray the costs of workers' compensation insurance, the matter is required to be submitted to the California Horse Racing Board for a decision.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1499	California AB 1499 (20092010)	bill	Horse racing: workers' compensation.	enacted	Evans	4	19	6	2009-02-27	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/82495380-1977-47f7-9dde-74b675b245ba	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1499	c725f89274120a1a387a79dafc9bf630496a5abd9ca9eb6ca8e2fbe24c558001	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1499 (20092010) — Horse racing: workers' compensation.

Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes a quarter horse racing association to deduct an additional 0.5% of the total amount handled in its exotic parimutuel pools and a harness racing association to deduct an additional 1% of the total amount handled in conventional parimutuel pools of harness races, under certain conditions, for workers' compensation insurance costs of trainers and owners, as specified, with any funds not expended for this purpose in the year in which they are collected to either be used for the following year's workers' compensation costs or to benefit the purse pool, as specified. If the racing association and the organization representing horsemen and horsewomen cannot agree on the manner of distribution of these funds to defray the costs of workers' compensation insurance, the matter is required to be submitted to the California Horse Racing Board for a decision.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB1499 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #12 AB1499 Evans — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1499 EVANS Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and INS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-11 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1471.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2009-06-09 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-02 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1668.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 151, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82495380-1977-47f7-9dde-74b675b245ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).