Senate Bill S2315

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to certain payments of 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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2019-S2315 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4734
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §228, RWB L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6684
2017-2018: S4154, S7602, A9687

2019-S2315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

2019-S2315 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2315
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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
 137 of the laws of 2018, 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
 [nineteen]  TWENTY, 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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