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Bill	Horse racing: welfare and safety of racehorses and jockeys.	(1) The Horse Racing Law establishes the California Horse Racing Board within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. That law vests the board with all powers necessary and proper to enable it to carry out the Horse Racing Law and makes the board responsible for, among other things, adopting rules and regulations for the protection of the public and the control of horse racing and parimutuel wagering and administration and enforcement of all laws, rules, and regulations affecting horse racing and parimutuel wagering.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1974	California AB 1974 (20192020)	bill appropriation	Horse racing: welfare and safety of racehorses and jockeys.	enacted	Gray	8	26	8	2020-01-22	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/6722a8b7-3a14-4126-bdd7-f9972fbb2219	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1974	ad01966d1508223cf536f75f05d976e361055d21146bfe9a4390cd0d5659188e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1974 (20192020) — Horse racing: welfare and safety of racehorses and jockeys.

(1) The Horse Racing Law establishes the California Horse Racing Board within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. That law vests the board with all powers necessary and proper to enable it to carry out the Horse Racing Law and makes the board responsible for, among other things, adopting rules and regulations for the protection of the public and the control of horse racing and parimutuel wagering and administration and enforcement of all laws, rules, and regulations affecting horse racing and parimutuel wagering.

Version chain

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

1. 01/22/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1974 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1974 Gray et al. By Dodd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1974 Gray Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1974 Gray Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gray — primary (person)
• Chau — author (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-01-23 From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2020-05-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4782.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2020-08-07 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5382.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 251, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6722a8b7-3a14-4126-bdd7-f9972fbb2219. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).