Bill Text: NY A09270 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-31 - signed chap.291 [A09270 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09270-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9270
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2016
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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  236 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    The  New York state gaming commission shall, as a condition of racing,
     5  require any franchised corporation and every other  corporation  subject
     6  to  its  jurisdiction to withhold one percent of all purses, except that
     7  for the franchised corporation, starting on September first,  two  thou-
     8  sand  seven  and  continuing  through  August thirty-first, two thousand
     9  [sixteen] seventeen, two percent of all purses shall be  withheld,  and,
    10  in  the  case  of  the  franchised  corporation,  to pay such sum to the
    11  horsemen's organization or its successor  that  was  first  entitled  to
    12  receive  payments  pursuant  to this section in accordance with rules of
    13  the commission adopted effective November third, nineteen hundred eight-
    14  y-three representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and train-
    15  ers utilizing the facilities of  such  franchised  corporation,  on  the
    16  condition  that  such horsemen's organization shall expend as much as is
    17  necessary, but not to exceed one-half of one percent of such total  sum,
    18  to acquire and maintain the equipment required to establish a program at
    19  a  state  college  within  this  state  with  an approved equine science
    20  program to test for the presence of steroids in horses, provided further
    21  that the qualified organization shall also, in an amount  to  be  deter-
    22  mined  by  its  board of directors, annually include in its expenditures
    23  for benevolence programs, funds to  support  an  organization  providing
    24  services  necessary  to backstretch employees, and, in the case of every
    25  other corporation, to  pay  such  one  percent  sum  of  purses  to  the
    26  horsemen's  organization  or  its  successor  that was first entitled to
    27  receive payments pursuant to this section in accordance  with  rules  of
    28  the  commission  adopted  effective  May  twenty-third, nineteen hundred
    29  eighty-six representing at least fifty-one percent  of  the  owners  and
    30  trainers utilizing the facilities of such corporation.
    31    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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