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type: "Bill"
title: "Horse Racing Law."
description: "Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, generally regulates horse racing and vests the administration and enforcement of the Horse Racing Law in the California Horse Racing Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2018, requires any racing association, including a fair, that conducts thoroughbred racing to pay to the owners' organization contracting with the association with respect to the conduct of thoroughbred racing an additional 134% of the portion required to be deducted for purses for a national marketing program, as specified. Existing law requires an owners' organization to annually file a report with the board and specified committees of the Legislature accounting for the receipt and expenditure of these funds. A violation of the Horse Racing Law is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1723"
citation: "California AB 1723 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Horse Racing Law."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Governmental Organization"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5510215-a6ef-4f93-ac31-134363aabf7d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723"
source_hash: "53ea2d4392b6c66d9e023e286ed9e42c5162a3c95f2985fdf07e89d9fba6de36"
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 1723 (20172018) — Horse Racing Law.
Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, generally regulates horse racing and vests the administration and enforcement of the Horse Racing Law in the California Horse Racing Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2018, requires any racing association, including a fair, that conducts thoroughbred racing to pay to the owners' organization contracting with the association with respect to the conduct of thoroughbred racing an additional 134% of the portion required to be deducted for purses for a national marketing program, as specified. Existing law requires an owners' organization to annually file a report with the board and specified committees of the Legislature accounting for the receipt and expenditure of these funds. 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. **03/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723&version=20170AB172399INT)
2. **06/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723&version=20170AB172398AMD)
3. **08/30/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723&version=20170AB172397AMD)
4. **10/02/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723&version=20170AB172395CHP)
5. **AB1723** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723)
6. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1723&version=20170AB172396ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1723 G.O. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GRAY — **740** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **160** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Governmental Organization — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-17** From printer. May be heard in committee April 16.
- **2017-03-30** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1396.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** From Consent Calendar.
- **2017-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-08-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2716.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
- **2017-09-15** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-15** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3485.)
- **2017-09-15** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (September 15). `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-16** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3548.)
- **2017-09-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3548.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 420, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5510215-a6ef-4f93-ac31-134363aabf7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).