Assembly Bill A11218

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the disposition of off-track pools

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A11218 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9096
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §527, RWB L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A7187, S1975

2017-A11218 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds tracks located in Westchester county to the tracks excepted from being considered regional tracks.

2017-A11218 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11218
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 15, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pretlow) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
   relation to the disposition of off-track pools
 
   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 1 of  section  527  of
 the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by section
 4  of  part  BB of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   The disposition of the retained commission from pools  resulting  from
 regular,  multiple or exotic bets, as the case may be, whether placed on
 races run within a region or  outside  a  region,  conducted  by  racing
 corporations, harness racing associations or corporations, quarter horse
 racing associations or corporations or races run outside the state shall
 be governed by the tables in paragraphs a and b of this subdivision. The
 rate  denominated  "state  tax" shall represent the rate of a reasonable
 tax imposed upon the retained commission for the privilege of conducting
 off-track pari-mutuel betting, which tax is hereby levied and  shall  be
 payable  in the manner set forth in this section. Each off-track betting
 corporation shall pay to the gaming  commission  as  a  regulatory  fee,
 which fee is hereby levied, six-tenths of one percent of the total daily
 pools  of  such  corporation.  Each  corporation  shall  also pay twenty
 percent of the breaks derived from  bets  on  harness  races  and  fifty
 percent  of the breaks derived from bets on all other races to the agri-
 culture and New York State horse breeding and development  fund  and  to
 the  thoroughbred  breeding  and  development  fund,  the  total of such
 payments to be apportioned fifty percent to  each  such  fund.  For  the
 purposes  of  this  section, the New York city, Suffolk, Nassau, and the
 Catskill regions shall constitute a single region and  any  thoroughbred
 track  located  within the Capital District region shall be deemed to be
 within such single region. A "regional meeting" shall  refer  to  either
 harness  or  thoroughbred  meetings,  or  both, except that a franchised
 corporation shall not be a regional track for the purpose  of  receiving
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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