California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 4 - California Horse Racing Board › Article 23 - Charity Foundations and Welfare Funds › Section 2050 - Beneficiaries, Welfare Programs and Activities

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) These
				regulations establish the appropriate uses for funds paid to the designated
				charitable corporations under the provisions of section
				19641(b)(1)
				of the Business and Professions Code. The directors or trustees of the welfare
				fund shall limit the eligibility for benefits to natural persons who engage in
				occupations directly relating to the physical care of horses at California
				racetracks or approved auxiliary stable areas and to the spouse or dependent
				children of such persons. Natural persons who have engaged in occupations
				directly relating to the physical care of horses at California racetracks or
				approved auxiliary stable areas, and their spouse or dependent children, may be
				eligible for benefits for not more than one year after the termination of such
				employment. Welfare funds may be expended for:
(1) Health care services including costs
				associated with the contracting for physicians' or dentists' professional
				services, hospitalization of an eligible beneficiary or dependent, outpatient,
				rehabilitative or preventative medical programs, restorative dental services,
				alcohol and drug abuse treatments, and capital outlay for medical or dental
				clinics and necessary equipment.
(2) Extended medical and health assurance
				including supplemental medical and hospitalization insurance coverage premiums,
				support or residential board and care facilities including capital outlay
				expenditures and reimbursements for beneficiaries confined to convalescent
				facilities or to facilities or institutions providing geriatric care.
(3) Emergency financial assistance including
				temporary family assistance financial aid, food or subsidized meal tickets or
				food vouchers, temporary housing expenses, emergency transportation expenses,
				burial expenses for an eligible beneficiary or immediate family member, and
				legal expenses of an eligible beneficiary.
(4) Educational and recreational activities
				including counseling and chaplaincy programs, Alcoholics Anonymous or similar
				programs, intra-mural sports activities and sports equipment, tickets and
				transportation to sports events, health and hygiene education classes,
				legal/immigration clinics, classes in spoken English, and expenditures for
				counselors, chaplains, and instructors for such activities.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of
				this regulation, CHRB licensees, employees of racing associations, and members
				of horsemen's organizations and racing-related charitable organizations that
				represent or assist backstretch personnel are eligible to receive health care
				services. Such services shall occur solely at clinic locations that are
				operated by the entity that administers the welfare fund established by the
				horsemen's organization described in Business and Professions Code section
				19641(b)(1).
				The health care services shall be administered so as to not displace
				beneficiaries who are eligible under subsection (a) of this regulation.
(A) For the purposes of this regulation,
				employees of horsemen's organizations and racing-related charitable
				organizations are considered members of such entities.
(6) Administration costs necessary to
				administer, supervise and audit the operations of the charitable corporation
				provided that the expenditures for such administration purposes not exceed 15
				percent of the total expenditures for any fiscal year.