STATE OF NEW YORK
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6124--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Racing and Wagering -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to percent of wagers made at off-track betting facilities
conducted by in-state thoroughbred racing corporations; and repealing
certain provisions of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1017 of the racing, pari-mutuel
2 wagering and breeding law is REPEALED.
3 § 2. Clause (E) of subparagraph 5 and clause (G) of subparagraph 6 of
4 paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 1016 of the racing, pari-mutuel
5 wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2008,
6 are amended to read as follows:
7 (E) On days when a franchised corporation is not conducting a race
8 meeting and when a licensed harness track is neither accepting wagers
9 nor displaying the signal from an in-state thoroughbred corporation or
10 association or an out-of-state thoroughbred track:
11 (i) Such licensed regional harness track shall receive in lieu of any
12 other payments on wagers placed at off-track betting facilities outside
13 the special betting district on races conducted by an in-state thorough-
14 bred racing corporation, [two and eight-tenths] one and four-tenths
15 percent on regular and multiple bets during a regional meeting and [one
16 and nine-tenths] ninety-five hundredths percent of such bets if there is
17 no regional meeting and [four and eight-tenths] two and four-tenths
18 percent on exotic bets on days on which there is a regional meeting and
19 [three and four-tenths] one and seven-tenths percent of such bets if
20 there is no regional meeting.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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