Assembly Bill A9294

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  9294

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 14, 2012
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Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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 ASSEM-
BLY, 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
175 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  The  state  racing and wagering board 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  thou-
sand  seven  and  continuing  through  August thirty-first, two thousand
[twelve] THIRTEEN, 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 board 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 condi-
tion that such horsemen's organization shall expend as much as is neces-
sary, 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 benevo-
lence  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 board
adopted effective May twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six  repres-
enting  at  least fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers utilizing
the facilities of such corporation.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
              

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14450-01-2