A10310-2011 Actions

• May 22, 2012: referred to racing and wagering

A10310-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 10310
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 May 22, 2012
 
 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 antitrust exemptions for horse racing agreements
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. The  racing,  pari-mutuel  wagering  and  breeding  law  is
 amended by adding a new section 113-a to read as follows:

 

S  113-A. ANTITRUST EXEMPTIONS. STATE AND FEDERAL ANTITRUST LAWS SHALL
 NOT APPLY TO ANY JOINT AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO, IN CONSULTATION WITH  AND
 JOINTLY  APPROVED BY THE STATE GAMING COMMISSION AND THE ATTORNEY GENER
 AL, BY OR AMONG  NON-PROFIT  RACING  ASSOCIATIONS,  THOROUGHBRED  RACING
 ASSOCIATIONS  OR  CORPORATIONS,  HARNESS  RACING  ASSOCIATIONS OR CORPO
 RATIONS, QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATIONS OR CORPORATIONS, AND REGIONAL
 OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATIONS TO COORDINATE THE DATES AND  TIMES  UNDER
 WHICH  THEY WILL CONDUCT PROGRAMS OF RACING AND OFFER PARI-MUTUEL WAGER
 ING. IN ADDITION, SUCH ANTITRUST LAWS SHALL NOT APPLY  TO  JOINT  AGREE
 MENTS  ENTERED  INTO,  IN  CONSULTATION WITH AND JOINTLY APPROVED BY THE
 STATE GAMING COMMISSION AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, BY OR AMONG NON-PROFIT
 RACING ASSOCIATIONS, THOROUGHBRED RACING ASSOCIATIONS  OR  CORPORATIONS,
 HARNESS  RACING ASSOCIATIONS OR CORPORATIONS, QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSO
 CIATIONS OR CORPORATIONS, AND REGIONAL OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATIONS TO
 SELL, TRANSFER, ASSIGN OR PURCHASE THE RIGHTS TO  BROADCAST,  SIMULCAST,
 ELECTRONICALLY  TRANSMIT  OR  OFFER PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING ON HORSE RACES.
 THE STATE GAMING COMMISSION  AND  THE  ATTORNEY  GENERAL  SHALL  JOINTLY
 CONSIDER  AND  APPROVE  SUCH AGREEMENTS AND THE TERMS THEREIN TO FURTHER
 THE STATE'S INTEREST IN ENSURING THE VIABILITY AND  CONTINUED  EXISTENCE
 IN THIS STATE OF THE HORSE RACING AND AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIES.
 

S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as section 1 of part A of chapter 60 of the laws  of  2012  takes
 effect.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04869-02-2

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