Bill Amendment: FL S0742 | 2014 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Racing Animals

Status: 2014-05-02 - Died in Messages [S0742 Detail]

Download: Florida-2014-S0742-Senate_Committee_Amendment_904392_to_Amendment_576668_.html

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       Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 742
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/08/2014           .                                
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    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (576668) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 576 - 720
    5  and insert:
    6  intertrack wagering signal is made available to such
    7  permitholder.
    8         Section 14. Paragraph (g) of subsection (9) of section
    9  550.6305, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   10         550.6305 Intertrack wagering; guest track payments;
   11  accounting rules.—
   12         (9) A host track that has contracted with an out-of-state
   13  horse track to broadcast live races conducted at such out-of
   14  state horse track pursuant to s. 550.3551(5) may broadcast such
   15  out-of-state races to any guest track and accept wagers thereon
   16  in the same manner as is provided in s. 550.3551.
   17         (g)1. Any thoroughbred permitholder which accepts wagers on
   18  a simulcast signal must make the signal available to any
   19  permitholder that is eligible to conduct intertrack wagering
   20  under the provisions of ss. 550.615-550.6345.
   21         2. Any thoroughbred permitholder which accepts wagers on a
   22  simulcast signal received after 6 p.m. must make such signal
   23  available to any permitholder that is eligible to conduct
   24  intertrack wagering under the provisions of ss. 550.615
   25  550.6345, including any permitholder located as specified in s.
   26  550.615(6). Such guest permitholders are authorized to accept
   27  wagers on such simulcast signal, notwithstanding any other
   28  provision of this chapter to the contrary.
   29         3. Any thoroughbred permitholder which accepts wagers on a
   30  simulcast signal received after 6 p.m. must make such signal
   31  available to any permitholder that is eligible to conduct
   32  intertrack wagering under the provisions of ss. 550.615
   33  550.6345, including any permitholder located as specified in s.
   34  550.615(9). Such guest permitholders are authorized to accept
   35  wagers on such simulcast signals for a number of performances
   36  not to exceed that which constitutes a full schedule of live
   37  races for a quarter horse permitholder pursuant to s.
   38  550.002(11), notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter
   39  to the contrary, except that the restrictions provided in s.
   40  550.615(9)(a) apply to wagers on such simulcast signals.
   41  
   42  No thoroughbred permitholder shall be required to continue to
   43  rebroadcast a simulcast signal to any in-state permitholder if
   44  the average per performance gross receipts returned to the host
   45  permitholder over the preceding 30-day period were less than
   46  $100. Subject to the provisions of s. 550.615(4), as a condition
   47  of receiving rebroadcasts of thoroughbred simulcast signals
   48  under this paragraph, a guest permitholder must accept
   49  intertrack wagers on all live races conducted by all then
   50  operating thoroughbred permitholders.
   51         Section 15. Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section
   52  551.104, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   53         551.104 License to conduct slot machine gaming.—
   54         (4) As a condition of licensure and to maintain continued
   55  authority for the conduct of slot machine gaming, the slot
   56  machine licensee shall:
   57         (c) Conduct no fewer than a full schedule of live racing or
   58  games as defined in s. 550.002(11), except for greyhound
   59  permitholders, which do not have a live racing requirement for
   60  the purpose of maintaining licensure under this chapter. A
   61  permitholder’s responsibility to conduct such number of live
   62  races or games shall be reduced by the number of races or games
   63  that could not be conducted due to the direct result of fire,
   64  war, hurricane, or other disaster or event beyond the control of
   65  the permitholder.
   66         Section 16. Subsections (2) and (4) of section 551.114,
   67  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   68         551.114 Slot machine gaming areas.—
   69         (2) The slot machine licensee shall display pari-mutuel
   70  races or games within the designated slot machine gaming areas
   71  and offer patrons within the designated slot machine gaming
   72  areas the ability to engage in pari-mutuel wagering on any live,
   73  intertrack, and simulcast races conducted or offered to patrons
   74  of the licensed facility.
   75         (4) Designated slot machine gaming areas may be located
   76  within the current live gaming facility or in an existing
   77  building that must be contiguous and connected to the live
   78  gaming facility or, for greyhound permitholders, the location
   79  where live races were authorized to be conducted during the
   80  2013-2014 state fiscal year. If a designated slot machine gaming
   81  area is to be located in a building that is to be constructed,
   82  that new building must be contiguous and connected to the live
   83  gaming facility.
   84         Section 17. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (5) and
   85  paragraph (d) of subsection (13) of section 849.086, Florida
   86  Statutes, are amended to read:
   87         849.086 Cardrooms authorized.—
   88         (5) LICENSE REQUIRED; APPLICATION; FEES.—No person may
   89  operate a cardroom in this state unless such person holds a
   90  valid cardroom license issued pursuant to this section.
   91         (a) Only those persons holding a valid cardroom license
   92  issued by the division may operate a cardroom. A cardroom
   93  license may only be issued to a licensed pari-mutuel
   94  permitholder. and An authorized cardroom may only be operated at
   95  the same facility at which the permitholder is authorized under
   96  its valid pari-mutuel wagering permit to conduct pari-mutuel
   97  wagering activities. An initial cardroom license shall be issued
   98  to a pari-mutuel permitholder only after its facilities are in
   99  place and after it conducts its first day of live racing or
  100  games or, for a greyhound permitholder, only after it has
  101  conducted a full schedule of live racing in each of the
  102  preceding 10 years or after it was converted pursuant to s.
  103  550.054(14).
  104         (b) After the initial cardroom license is granted, the
  105  application for the annual license renewal shall be made in
  106  conjunction with the applicant’s annual application for its
  107  pari-mutuel license. If a permitholder has operated a cardroom
  108  during any of the 3 previous fiscal years and fails to include a
  109  renewal request for the operation of the cardroom in its annual
  110  application for license renewal, the permitholder may amend its
  111  annual application to include operation of the cardroom. In
  112  order for a cardroom license to be renewed the applicant must
  113  have requested, as part of its pari-mutuel annual license
  114  application, to conduct at least 90 percent of the total number
  115  of live performances conducted by such permitholder during
  116  either the state fiscal year in which its initial cardroom
  117  license was issued or the state fiscal year immediately prior
  118  thereto if the permitholder ran at least a full schedule of live
  119  racing or games in the prior year. If the application is for a
  120  harness permitholder cardroom, the applicant must have requested
  121  authorization to conduct a minimum of 140 live performances
  122  during the state fiscal year immediately prior thereto. If more
  123  than one permitholder is operating at a facility, each
  124  permitholder must have applied for a license to conduct a full
  125  schedule of live racing. Notwithstanding any law to the
  126  contrary, a greyhound permitholder is not required to conduct a
  127  minimum number of requested or conducted live performances in
  128  order to maintain or renew a cardroom license.
  129  
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  131  And the title is amended as follows:
  132         Delete lines 813 - 823
  133  and insert:
  134         amending s. 551.104, F.S.; specifying that a greyhound
  135         permitholder is not required to conduct a full
  136         schedule of live racing to maintain a license to
  137         conduct slot machine gaming; amending s. 551.114,
  138         F.S.; authorizing a greyhound permitholder to locate
  139         its slot machine gaming area in certain locations;
  140         amending s. 849.086, F.S.; specifying conditions under
  141         which a greyhound permitholder may receive an initial
  142         cardroom license; specifying that a greyhound
  143         permitholder is not required to conduct a minimum
  144         number of live races in order to maintain or renew a
  145         cardroom