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                                  6684

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 4, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
  ing

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
236 of the laws of 2015, 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 thou-
sand seven and continuing  through  August  thirty-first,  two  thousand
[sixteen]  SEVENTEEN,  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 eight-
y-three representing at least fifty-one percent of the owners and train-
ers  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 deter-
mined 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

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

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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.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.