Assembly Bill A6946

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Permits racing or licensing race meetings on Palm Sunday

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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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2015-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4934
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §109, RWB L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2718
2011-2012: S3698
2013-2014: S3821

2015-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits racing or licensing race meetings on Palm Sunday.

2015-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6946

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 15, 2015
                               ___________

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  allotting dates for racing or licensing race meetings at
  which pari-mutuel betting is permitted on Palm Sunday

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 109 of the racing, pari-mutuel
wagering and breeding law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 60
of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December  twenty-fifth[,
Palm Sunday] and Easter Sunday; and
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10410-01-5

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