Bill Text: NY A08533 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8533

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows New York sire stakes eligibility for foals sired by New York state stallions, either in-state or out-of-state and born in-state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - signed chap.39 [A08533 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08533-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8533

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 5, 2024
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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 allowing New York sire stakes eligibility for foals sired
          by New York state stallions; and to repeal 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. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 of
     2  section 334 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering  and  breeding  law,  as
     3  amended by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the racing, pari-mutu-
     4  el  wagering  and breeding law relating to allowing New York sire stakes
     5  eligibility for foals sired by New York state stallions, as proposed  in
     6  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 2779 and A. 3528, are amended to read as
     7  follows:
     8    The fund is further authorized and directed to conduct each  year,  at
     9  the  New York state exposition, with the approval of the director of the
    10  exposition, or at any licensed pari-mutuel track in New York state, with
    11  a preference given to any available licensed pari-mutuel track  that  is
    12  five-eighths  of a mile long or larger, colt, stake and overnight events
    13  for standardbred horses to provide contests for two year old  and  three
    14  year  old  colts  and  fillies  at each gait of trotting and pacing. The
    15  colt, stake and overnight events so conducted for two year old and three
    16  year old colts and fillies at each gait of trotting and pacing hereunder
    17  shall be conditioned to admit only those colts and fillies dropped  from
    18  a  mare  bred  in this state and sired by a stallion owned or leased and
    19  permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of
    20  the said foal's conception, provided, however, that such mare, stallion,
    21  and foal shall be microchipped with such microchip information which the
    22  commission may request  be  provided  and  made  available  pursuant  to
    23  section  two  hundred  twenty-five of this chapter. Such colt, stake and
    24  overnight events shall be opened for nomination  not  earlier  than  the
    25  first  day of January in the year the event is to be held and only colts

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07427-02-4

        A. 8533                             2

     1  and fillies and horses complying with the following standards  shall  be
     2  eligible for such nomination:
     3    2.  The fund is further authorized and directed in each year, in coop-
     4  eration with each licensee harness track in this state, to  provide  for
     5  the  running  of stake events conditioned to admit only two year old and
     6  three year old colts and fillies sired by a stallion owned or leased and
     7  permanently standing for service at and within this state at the time of
     8  the said foal's conception, at each gait of trotting and pacing,  to  be
     9  known  as "New York sire stakes" and to contribute to the purses, stakes
    10  or prizes to be awarded in such "New York sire stakes", such sums as the
    11  fund shall deem advisable. The fund may establish a system that  distin-
    12  guishes between (a) foals sired by a stallion standing in this state and
    13  bred  within  this state, (b) foals sired by a stallion standing in this
    14  state and with a mare bred outside this state, and (c) foals sired by  a
    15  stallion  standing  in  this state and dropped from a mare who was bred,
    16  and resided, in this state for at least one hundred eighty days  in  the
    17  year of conception. The fund shall provide bonus payments to those foals
    18  bred  within  the  state that meet other conditions imposed by the fund.
    19  The fund may prescribe a starting fee for such  "New  York-bred  harness
    20  horse stakes" but in no event shall such fee be less than two per centum
    21  of the estimated purse for each entry. The fee prescribed shall be added
    22  to the purses awarded.
    23    §  2. Subdivision 3-a of section 334 of the racing, pari-mutuel wager-
    24  ing and breeding law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
    25  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law relating  to  allowing
    26  New York sire stakes eligibility for foals sired by New York state stal-
    27  lions,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2779 and A. 3528, is
    28  REPEALED.
    29    § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    30  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the racing, pari-mutuel
    31  wagering  and  breeding  law  relating  to allowing New York sire stakes
    32  eligibility for foals sired by New York state stallions, as proposed  in
    33  legislative bills numbers S. 2779 and A. 3528, takes effect.