Bill Text: NY A03605 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization; extends such provisions to 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-02 - enacting clause stricken [A03605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03605-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3605

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation to certain payments to the horsemen's organization

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

     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of  section  228  of
     2  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter
     3  200 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    The commission shall, as a condition of racing, require any franchised
     5  corporation  and  every other corporation subject to its jurisdiction to
     6  withhold one percent of all  purses,  except  that  for  the  franchised
     7  corporation, starting on September first, two thousand seven and contin-
     8  uing  through  August  thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-three] twenty-
     9  four, two percent of all purses shall be withheld, and, in the  case  of
    10  the  franchised corporation, to pay such sum to the horsemen's organiza-
    11  tion or its successor that was first entitled to receive payments pursu-
    12  ant to this section in accordance with rules of the  commission  adopted
    13  effective  November third, nineteen hundred eighty-three representing at
    14  least fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers using the  facilities
    15  of  such  franchised  corporation, on the condition that such horsemen's
    16  organization shall expend as much as is necessary,  but  not  to  exceed
    17  one-half  of  one percent of such total sum, to acquire and maintain the
    18  equipment required to establish a program at a state college within this
    19  state with an approved equine science program to test for  the  presence
    20  of  steroids in horses, provided further that the qualified organization
    21  shall also, in an amount to be determined by  its  board  of  directors,
    22  annually  include in its expenditures for benevolence programs, funds to
    23  support an organization  providing  services  necessary  to  backstretch
    24  employees,  and, in the case of every other corporation, to pay such one
    25  percent sum of purses to the horsemen's organization  or  its  successor

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section in
     2  accordance with rules of the commission adopted  effective  May  twenty-
     3  third,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-six  representing  at  least fifty-one
     4  percent  of  the owners and trainers using the facilities of such corpo-
     5  ration.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.