senate Bill S7087

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to certain payments of the horsemen's organization

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Current Bill Status - Passed Senate

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
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    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 27, 2020 referred to racing and wagering
delivered to assembly
passed senate
Jan 15, 2020 advanced to third reading
Jan 14, 2020 2nd report cal.
Jan 13, 2020 1st report cal.50
Jan 08, 2020 referred to racing, gaming and wagering

Votes

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Jan 27, 2020 - floor Vote

S7087
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floor
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Aye
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Nay
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Absent
1
Excused
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Abstained
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Floor Vote: Jan 27, 2020

aye (61)
excused (1)

Jan 13, 2020 - Racing, Gaming and Wagering committee Vote

S7087
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committee
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Nay
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Aye with Reservations
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Absent
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Excused
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Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee Vote: Jan 13, 2020

aye (7)

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S7087 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9131
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §228, RWB L

S7087 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

S7087 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S7087 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 


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

                                  7087

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 8, 2020
                               ___________

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
122 of the laws of 2019, 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
[twenty]  TWENTY-ONE,  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

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