Horse racing: state-designated fairs: employees.

Existing law requires any revenues deposited into the Fair and Exposition Fund, a continuously appropriated fund established in the State Treasury containing, among other things, a percentage of gross receipts for sales and use taxes on state-designated fair property, to only be allocated to a state-designated fair if nonmanagement employees at that state-designated fair, or nonmanagement employees at any real property of that state-designated fair that is leased to another party, are provided certain working conditions, including that the employees receive a meal period of not less than 30 minutes, as provided. This bill would provide that an employee, for purposes of the above paragraph, does not include an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly provides for certain things, including meal periods for those employees. By expanding the use of continuously appropriated funds, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.