What's happening
This bill extends from 2018 to 2019 the period during which a higher percentage of horse race purses are withheld for payments to horsemen's organizations.
Why it matters
Extending the higher purse withholding rate for another year means more funding will be directed to horsemen's organizations in 2019, potentially supporting programs for owners, trainers, and backstretch workers.
This change may allow horsemen's organizations to invest more in health, welfare, and safety initiatives, including the continuation of equine steroid testing at state colleges, which could help maintain race integrity and animal welfare.
By prolonging elevated funding, the bill could provide greater financial stability for organizations representing the majority of racing participants, possibly improving working conditions and support services for those employed at racetracks.
The extension may also impact the distribution of racing purses, slightly reducing payouts to winners in favor of broader benefits for the racing community, which could be controversial among some stakeholders.
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Extend Horsemen Payment Period
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History
- Signed chap.137
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.406
- Substituted for S7602
- Referred to racing, gaming and wagering
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.810
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
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- Referred to racing and wagering
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Extend Horsemen Payment Period
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor John J. Bonacic
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STATE OF NEW YORK
9687
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 Assembly, 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 111 of the laws of 2017, 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 thousand seven and continuing through August thirty-first, two thousand [eighteen] nineteen, 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 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 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 effective May twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers utilizing 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.
LBD14587-01-8
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