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Senate Bill S5342

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires racetrack locations awarded a gaming facility license maintain live racing activity

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Racing, Gaming And Wagering Committee

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2023-S5342 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4907
Current Committee:
Senate Racing, Gaming And Wagering
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1355, RWB L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S8358, A7802

2023-S5342 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires racetrack locations awarded a gaming facility license maintain live racing activity.

2023-S5342 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5342 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5342
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 requiring racetrack locations awarded  a  gaming  facility
   license maintain live racing activity

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  1355  of  the
 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter 243
 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  All  racetrack  locations awarded a gaming facility license shall
 maintain LIVE racing activity and race dates pursuant  to  articles  two
 and three of this chapter.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08694-01-3

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