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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2018
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 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
 111 of the laws of 2017, 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
 [eighteen] NINETEEN, 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.
              

   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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