California Assembly Bill AB2592 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2592AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2014 INTRODUCED BY Assembly  Member   Chesbro   Members   Chesbro   and Levine  FEBRUARY 21, 2014  An act to amend Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.   An act to amend Section 19530 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing.  LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2592, as amended, Chesbro.  Solid waste: management.   California Horse Racing Board: racing dates: economic analysis.   Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides for the operation of live horse racing in this state and for wagering thereon, and for the operation of satellite wagering facilities, subject to regulation and oversight by the California Horse Racing Board. That law also requires the board to allocate racing weeks to an applicant, to specify racing days, dates, and hours for horse racing meetings as will be in the public interest, and provides that the decision of the board is subject to change, limitation, or restriction only by the board.   This bill would require the board, when it receives a proposal from an applicant to make a substantial change, as defined, to the number of racing dates allocated to a fair or racetrack, to conduct an economic analysis of the proposal's effect on other fairs and racetracks and to consider all proposed alternative racing dates based on that economic analysis before the board votes on the proposal or any alternative option to the original proposal.   Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and local agencies, when implementing the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, to promote certain waste management practices in a specified order of priority.   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those requirements.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no   yes  . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION 1.   Section 19530 of the   Business and Professions Code  is amended   to read:  19530.  (a)    The board shall have the authority to allocate racing weeks to an applicant or applicants pursuant to the provisions of this article and Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 19540) and to specify  such   those  racing days, dates, and hours for horse racing meetings as will be in the public interest, and will subserve the purposes of this chapter. The decision of the board as to  such  racing days, dates, and hours shall be subject to change,  limitation   limitation,  or restriction only by the board.  No   A  municipality or county shall  not  adopt or enforce any ordinance or regulation  which   that  has or may have the effect of directly or indirectly regulating,  limiting   limiting,  or restricting the racing days and dates of horse racing meetings.  (b) When the board receives a proposal from an applicant to make a substantial change to the number of racing dates allocated to a fair or racetrack, the board shall conduct an economic analysis of the proposal's effect on other fairs and racetracks and shall consider all proposed alternative racing dates based on that economic analysis before the board votes on the proposal or any alternative option to the original proposal.   (c) As used in this section, "substantial change" means any race date change that changes the dates more than three days from the prior year's horse racing dates.   SECTION 1.   Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 40051. In implementing this division, the department and local agencies shall do both of the following: (a) Promote the following waste management practices in order of priority: (1) Source reduction. (2) Recycling and composting. (3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally safe land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county. (b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of those practices.