What's happening
This bill extends the increased purse withholding rate for horsemen's organizations at franchised racetracks through August 31, 2020.
Why it matters
Provides additional funding stability for horsemen’s organizations. by extending the higher purse withholding rate for another year, supporting essential services for horse owners and trainers at franchised racetracks.
Continues funding for equine drug testing and backstretch worker support. , ensuring resources for steroid testing at state colleges and for programs that assist workers who care for horses, which could impact horse welfare and integrity in racing.
Signals ongoing legislative attention to the financial and operational health of New York’s horse racing industry. , potentially affecting jobs, local economies, and the broader agriculture sector linked to horse racing.
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Extend Horsemen’s Payment Period
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History
- Substituted by S2315
- Advanced to third reading cal.243
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to racing and wagering
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Increase Horse Racing Payments
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4734
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
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 137 of the laws of 2018, 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 [nineteen] twenty, 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
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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.
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