Bill Text: NY A05037 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5037 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - substituted by s4618 [A05037 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05037-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5037--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Racing and Wagering  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       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 amended by chapter
    3  134 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    4    The [state racing and wagering board] NEW YORK STATE GAMING COMMISSION
    5  shall, as a condition of racing, require any franchised corporation  and
    6  every  other  corporation  subject  to  its jurisdiction to withhold one
    7  percent of all purses,  except  that  for  the  franchised  corporation,
    8  starting  on  September first, two thousand seven and continuing through
    9  August thirty-first, two thousand [thirteen] FOURTEEN,  two  percent  of
   10  all  purses shall be withheld, and, in the case of the franchised corpo-
   11  ration, to pay such sum to the horsemen's organization or its  successor
   12  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section in
   13  accordance with rules of the [board] COMMISSION adopted effective Novem-
   14  ber third, nineteen hundred eighty-three representing at least fifty-one
   15  percent of the owners and trainers  utilizing  the  facilities  of  such
   16  franchised  corporation, on the condition that such horsemen's organiza-
   17  tion shall expend as much as is necessary, but not to exceed one-half of
   18  one percent of such total sum, to acquire  and  maintain  the  equipment
   19  required  to  establish  a  program at a state college within this state
   20  with an approved equine science program to  test  for  the  presence  of
   21  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
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08909-02-3
       A. 5037--A                          2
    1  employees,  and, in the case of every other corporation, to pay such one
    2  percent sum of purses to the horsemen's organization  or  its  successor
    3  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section in
    4  accordance  with  rules  of the [board] COMMISSION adopted effective May
    5  twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at  least  fifty-
    6  one  percent of the owners and trainers utilizing the facilities of such
    7  corporation.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.