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                                   8440
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2024
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 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 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
 198 of the laws of 2023, 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-four]
 TWENTY-FIVE,  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 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 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 effec-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 tive May twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at least
 fifty-one percent of the owners and trainers  using  the  facilities  of
 such corporation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.