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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2022
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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
 216 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   The 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 thousand seven and contin-
 uing    through   August   thirty-first,   two   thousand   [twenty-two]
 TWENTY-THREE, 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  eighty-
 three representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers
 using  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 determined 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  effec-
 tive May twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at least
 fifty-one  percent  of  the  owners and trainers using 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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