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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 15, 2018
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 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pretlow) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
   relation to the disposition of off-track pools
 
   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 1 of  section  527  of
 the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by section
 4  of  part  BB of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   The disposition of the retained commission from pools  resulting  from
 regular,  multiple or exotic bets, as the case may be, whether placed on
 races run within a region or  outside  a  region,  conducted  by  racing
 corporations, harness racing associations or corporations, quarter horse
 racing associations or corporations or races run outside the state shall
 be governed by the tables in paragraphs a and b of this subdivision. The
 rate  denominated  "state  tax" shall represent the rate of a reasonable
 tax imposed upon the retained commission for the privilege of conducting
 off-track pari-mutuel betting, which tax is hereby levied and  shall  be
 payable  in the manner set forth in this section. Each off-track betting
 corporation shall pay to the gaming  commission  as  a  regulatory  fee,
 which fee is hereby levied, six-tenths of one percent of the total daily
 pools  of  such  corporation.  Each  corporation  shall  also pay twenty
 percent of the breaks derived from  bets  on  harness  races  and  fifty
 percent  of the breaks derived from bets on all other races to the agri-
 culture and New York State horse breeding and development  fund  and  to
 the  thoroughbred  breeding  and  development  fund,  the  total of such
 payments to be apportioned fifty percent to  each  such  fund.  For  the
 purposes  of  this  section, the New York city, Suffolk, Nassau, and the
 Catskill regions shall constitute a single region and  any  thoroughbred
 track  located  within the Capital District region shall be deemed to be
 within such single region. A "regional meeting" shall  refer  to  either
 harness  or  thoroughbred  meetings,  or  both, except that a franchised
 corporation shall not be a regional track for the purpose  of  receiving
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 distributions  from  bets on thoroughbred races conducted by a thorough-
 bred track in the Catskill region conducting a mixed meeting.  With  the
 exception  of a harness racing association or corporation first licensed
 to  conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a track located in Tioga [or], Sara-
 toga OR WESTCHESTER county  after  January  first,  two  thousand  five,
 racing  corporations  first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel racing after
 January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six or a harness  racing  associ-
 ation or corporation first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a
 track  located in Genesee County after January first, two thousand five,
 and quarter horse tracks shall not be "regional  tracks";  if  there  is
 more  than  one  harness track within a region, such tracks shall evenly
 divide payments made pursuant to the tables in paragraphs  a  and  b  of
 this  subdivision  when  neither  track is running. In the event a track
 elects to reduce its retained percentage from any or all of its pari-mu-
 tuel pools, the payments to the track holding the race and the  regional
 track  required  by  paragraphs  a  and  b  of this subdivision shall be
 reduced in proportion to such reduction. Nothing in this  section  shall
 be  construed  to authorize the conduct of off-track betting contrary to
 the provisions of section five hundred twenty-three of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.