Assembly Bill A8698

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A8698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6527
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §228, RWB L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S1866

2013-A8698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

2013-A8698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8698

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2014
                               ___________

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:

  Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of  section  228  of
the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter
43 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  The  New York state gaming commission shall, as a condition of racing,
require any franchised corporation and every other  corporation  subject
to  its  jurisdiction to withhold one percent of all purses, except that
for the franchised corporation, starting on September first,  two  thou-
sand  seven  and  continuing  through  August thirty-first, two thousand
[fourteen] FIFTEEN, two percent of all purses shall be withheld, and, in
the case  of  the  franchised  corporation,  to  pay  such  sum  to  the
horsemen's  organization  or  its  successor  that was first entitled to
receive payments pursuant to this section in accordance  with  rules  of
the commission adopted effective November third, nineteen hundred eight-
y-three representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and train-
ers  utilizing  the  facilities  of  such franchised corporation, on the
condition that such horsemen's organization shall expend as much  as  is
necessary,  but not to exceed one-half of one percent of such total sum,
to acquire and maintain the equipment required to establish a program at
a state college within  this  state  with  an  approved  equine  science
program to test for the presence of steroids in horses, provided further
that  the  qualified  organization shall also, in an amount to be deter-
mined by its board of directors, annually include  in  its  expenditures
for  benevolence  programs,  funds  to support an organization providing
services necessary to backstretch employees, and, in the case  of  every
other  corporation,  to  pay  such  one  percent  sum  of  purses to the
horsemen's organization or its successor  that  was  first  entitled  to
receive  payments  pursuant  to this section in accordance with rules of
the commission adopted  effective  May  twenty-third,  nineteen  hundred
eighty-six  representing  at  least  fifty-one percent of the owners and
trainers utilizing the facilities of such corporation.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
              

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