What's happening
This bill requires racehorse owners and trainers to complete online training on responsible and humane horse retirement as a licensing condition.
Why it matters
Promotes animal welfare by ensuring that racehorse owners and trainers are educated on the responsible and humane retirement of horses. , potentially reducing cases of neglect or mistreatment after a horse's racing career ends.
Makes humane retirement training a licensing requirement. , meaning only those who have completed the course can legally own or train racehorses in the state, which could raise standards industry-wide.
Mandates the development and distribution of educational materials and an online training course. , signaling a shift toward formal, standardized education on post-racing care rather than leaving these responsibilities to individual discretion.
Involves equine veterinarians in distributing retirement education. , leveraging their expertise and contact with horse owners to reinforce best practices in animal welfare.
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Require Humane Horse Retirement Training
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History
- Referred to racing and wagering
- Referred to racing and wagering
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Require Humane Horse Retirement Training
In Senate Committee · Racing, Gaming And Wagering · Sponsor Monica Martinez
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1218
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Racing and Wagering
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law and the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the notification of responsible and humane retirement of horses to trainers and owners
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law is amended by adding a new section 130 to read as follows:
§ 130. Completion of online training course. Any owner or trainer that is required to be licensed pursuant to this chapter, shall complete an online training course, established pursuant to subdivision fifty-one of section sixteen of the agriculture and markets law, detailing the responsibilities of the owner and trainer as a condition of such license.
§ 2. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by adding two new subdivisions 50 and 51 to read as follows:
50. Establish educational material regarding the responsible and humane retirement of horses which shall be distributed by equine veterinarians in the state.
51. Establish an online training course to be administered to owners and trainers detailing the responsibilities of such owners and trainers, including the responsible and humane retirement of race horses.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that section two of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05015-01-9
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