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                                   4408
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 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 separately amended
 by section 1 of item RR of subpart B of part XXX of chapter 58 and chap-
 ter 243 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   The 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 thousand seven and contin-
 uing  through August thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one] TWENTY-TWO,
 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  effec-
 tive November third, nineteen hundred eighty-three representing at least
 fifty-one  percent  of  the  owners and trainers using 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 determined 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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 using the facilities of  such  corpo-
 ration.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.