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Bill	Horse racing: state-designated fairs: allocation of revenues: gross receipts for sales and use tax.	The Horse Racing Law provides that any unallocated balance from the total revenue received by the Department of Food and Agriculture pursuant to that law, except as specified, is hereby appropriated without regard to fiscal years for allocation by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for capital outlay to California fairs, including state-designated fairs, for among other things, fair projects involving public health and safety, and projects that are required to protect fair property. That law also provides that a portion of these funds may be allocated to California fairs for general operational support.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1499	California AB 1499 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Horse racing: state-designated fairs: allocation of revenues: gross receipts for sales and use tax.	enacted	Gray	7	27	8	2017-02-17	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/11f4ec68-b2bf-46ef-b56d-04f9e748b345	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1499	23928642eb8f42f7846b706e489e57a1956d1c369415ac0becce3da4109f94fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1499 (20172018) — Horse racing: state-designated fairs: allocation of revenues: gross receipts for sales and use tax.

The Horse Racing Law provides that any unallocated balance from the total revenue received by the Department of Food and Agriculture pursuant to that law, except as specified, is hereby appropriated without regard to fiscal years for allocation by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for capital outlay to California fairs, including state-designated fairs, for among other things, fair projects involving public health and safety, and projects that are required to protect fair property. That law also provides that a portion of these funds may be allocated to California fairs for general operational support.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/12/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1499 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1499 Gray et al. By Cannella — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1499 Gray Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1499 GRAY Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gray — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)
• Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kiley — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1974.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2770.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3320.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 798, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11f4ec68-b2bf-46ef-b56d-04f9e748b345. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).