S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9096
I N S E N A T E
June 16, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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distributions from bets on thoroughbred races conducted by a thorough-
bred track in the Catskill region conducting a mixed meeting. With the
exception of a harness racing association or corporation first licensed
to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a track located in Tioga [or], Sara-
toga OR WESTCHESTER county after January first, two thousand five,
racing corporations first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel racing after
January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six or a harness racing associ-
ation or corporation first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a
track located in Genesee County after January first, two thousand five,
and quarter horse tracks shall not be "regional tracks"; if there is
more than one harness track within a region, such tracks shall evenly
divide payments made pursuant to the tables in paragraphs a and b of
this subdivision when neither track is running. In the event a track
elects to reduce its retained percentage from any or all of its pari-mu-
tuel pools, the payments to the track holding the race and the regional
track required by paragraphs a and b of this subdivision shall be
reduced in proportion to such reduction. Nothing in this section shall
be construed to authorize the conduct of off-track betting contrary to
the provisions of section five hundred twenty-three of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
