Bill Text: NY S02076 | 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: (Passed) 2023-07-19 - SIGNED CHAP.198 [S02076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2076

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
          ing

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04813-01-3
        S. 2076                             2

     1  percent  sum  of  purses to the horsemen's organization or its successor
     2  that was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section  in
     3  accordance  with  rules  of the commission adopted effective May twenty-
     4  third,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-six  representing  at  least fifty-one
     5  percent of the owners and trainers using the facilities of  such  corpo-
     6  ration.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.