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                                   4154
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2017
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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
 291 of the laws of 2016, 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
 [seventeen]  EIGHTEEN, 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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  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.