Bill Text: NY A00297 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the installation and use of surveillance cameras in all racetracks; provides cameras shall be capable of monitoring human and equine traffic in and out of individual stalls, barns and surrounding areas; provides video footage shall be available for review for no less than three years from the date of surveillance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to racing and wagering [A00297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00297-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           297

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation to requiring the installation and use of surveillance cameras
          in all racetracks

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The  racing,  pari-mutuel  wagering  and  breeding  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new section 907 to read as follows:
     3    §  907.  Surveillance  cameras.  1.  High  definition state-of-the-art
     4  surveillance cameras with quality sound capability shall  be  installed,
     5  kept  properly  maintained  and operated and utilized in all racetracks,
     6  including, but not limited to, the entire stable area and be capable  of
     7  monitoring  human and equine traffic twenty-four hours a day, seven days
     8  a week, in and out of individual stalls, barns  and  surrounding  areas.
     9  The  video  footage  including  sound  shall  be  able  to be viewed and
    10  listened to in real time and shall be stored and available for  detailed
    11  subsequent review for no less than three years from the date of surveil-
    12  lance as provided for under this section.
    13    2.  Any  racetrack  that  fails  to  implement  the provisions of this
    14  section shall be subject to a fine of ten thousand dollars  per  day  of
    15  noncompliance.
    16    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    17  law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01362-01-3