Bill Text: NY A04408 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4408 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization; extends such provision to 2022.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-24 - substituted by s5723 [A04408 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04408-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4408

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means

        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:

     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of  section  228  of
     2  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as separately amended
     3  by section 1 of item RR of subpart B of part XXX of chapter 58 and chap-
     4  ter 243 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     5    The commission shall, as a condition of racing, require any franchised
     6  corporation  and  every other corporation subject to its jurisdiction to
     7  withhold one percent of all  purses,  except  that  for  the  franchised
     8  corporation, starting on September first, two thousand seven and contin-
     9  uing  through August thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one] twenty-two,
    10  two percent of all purses shall be withheld, and, in  the  case  of  the
    11  franchised  corporation,  to pay such sum to the horsemen's organization
    12  or its successor that was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to
    13  this section in accordance with rules of the commission  adopted  effec-
    14  tive November third, nineteen hundred eighty-three representing at least
    15  fifty-one  percent  of  the  owners and trainers using the facilities of
    16  such franchised corporation,  on  the  condition  that  such  horsemen's
    17  organization  shall  expend  as  much as is necessary, but not to exceed
    18  one-half of one percent of such total sum, to acquire and  maintain  the
    19  equipment required to establish a program at a state college within this
    20  state  with  an approved equine science program to test for the presence
    21  of steroids in horses, provided further that the qualified  organization
    22  shall  also,  in  an  amount to be determined by its board of directors,
    23  annually include in its expenditures for benevolence programs, funds  to
    24  support  an  organization  providing  services  necessary to backstretch
    25  employees, and, in the case of every other corporation, to pay such  one

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08917-01-1

        A. 4408                             2

     1  percent  sum  of  purses to the horsemen's organization or its successor
     2  that was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section  in
     3  accordance  with  rules  of the commission adopted effective May twenty-
     4  third,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-six  representing  at  least fifty-one
     5  percent of the owners and trainers using the facilities of  such  corpo-
     6  ration.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.