Senate Bill S6527

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A8698 - Signed by Governor


  • 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-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8698
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง228, RWB L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S1866

2013-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

2013-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6527

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 3, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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:

  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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