Bill Text: NY A09209 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization; extends such provisions to 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-15 - substituted by s8440 [A09209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09209-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9209

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 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 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  198 of the laws of 2023, 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-four]
     9  twenty-five, two percent of all purses shall be withheld,  and,  in  the
    10  case  of  the  franchised corporation, to pay such sum to the horsemen's
    11  organization or  its  successor  that  was  first  entitled  to  receive
    12  payments  pursuant  to  this  section  in  accordance  with rules of the
    13  commission adopted effective November third,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-
    14  three representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers
    15  using  the  facilities  of such franchised corporation, on the condition
    16  that such horsemen's organization shall expend as much as is  necessary,
    17  but  not to exceed one-half of one percent of such total sum, to acquire
    18  and maintain the equipment required to establish a program  at  a  state
    19  college  within  this  state  with an approved equine science program to
    20  test for the presence of steroids in horses, provided further  that  the
    21  qualified  organization shall also, in an amount to be determined by its
    22  board of directors, annually include in its expenditures for benevolence
    23  programs, funds to support an organization providing services  necessary
    24  to  backstretch  employees, and, in the case of every other corporation,
    25  to pay such one percent sum of purses to the horsemen's organization  or
    26  its  successor  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to
    27  this section in accordance with rules of the commission  adopted  effec-
    28  tive May twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at least

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14310-01-4
        A. 9209                             2

     1  fifty-one  percent  of  the  owners and trainers using the facilities of
     2  such corporation.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.