Relates to payments in support of racing; sets up a payment applicants must pay if they are issued a gaming facility license and they do not possess either a pari-mutuel wagering license or franchise award.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4803
SPONSOR: Pretlow TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to payments in support of racing
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To ensure that purse support funding, funding for the New York State
Horse Breeding and Development Fund and funding for the New York State
Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund provided by video lottery
gaming are maintained at 2013 levels (as adjusted for inflation) for
licensed racetracks within 75 miles of a casino to be located in the
Eastern Southern Tier Region (Region 5).
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends subdivision 2 of section 1355 of the Racing, Pari-Mu-
tuel Wagering and Breeding Law to provide that an applicant for a casino
license in the Eastern Southern Tier Region (Region 5) shall be required
to pay an .amount to ensure purse support funding, funding for the New
York State Horse Breeding and Development Fund and funding for the New
York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund provided by video
lottery gaining are maintained at 2013 levels (as adjusted for
inflation) for licensed racetracks within 75 miles of their location.
Section 2: Effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Upstate New York Gaming Economic Development Act of 2013 (Chapter
174 of 2013) provided the statutory framework for the casino site
selection process and the operations of the new casinos. As part of
this, section 1355 of the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
required casino license winners to "hold harmless" purse support
payments to the horsemen and payments to the breeding funds at race-
tracks located within their region. However, with the selection by the
Gaming Facility Location Board of an applicant in the Finger Lakes
Region, which is located in close proximity to racetracks that are not
protected by this provision as it is not in the same "Region," this
legislation becomes necessary to protect theses support payments.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-2022 A1719 referred to racing & wagering
2019-2020 A3581 referred to racing & wagering
01/03/18 A4132 referred to racing and wagering
03/20/15 referred to racing and wagering
03/31/15 amend and recommit to racing and wagering
03/31/15 print number 6345a
01/06/16 referred to racing and wagering
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4803
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Racing and Wagering
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to payments in support of racing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1355 of the
2 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as added by section 1 of
3 part LL of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (b) Beginning on March sixteenth, two thousand twenty and for all time
6 thereafter, the licensee shall pay an amount to horsemen for purses at
7 the licensed racetracks in the region and in the case of region five any
8 licensed racetracks within seventy-five miles of the licensee's facili-
9 ty, and an amount to the agricultural and New York state horse breeding
10 development fund and the New York state thoroughbred breeding and devel-
11 opment fund that, in aggregate, shall be equal to the product of three
12 and eight-tenths percent multiplied by the gross gaming revenue from
13 slot machines of the licensee for the applicable calendar year, provided
14 that such amount shall not exceed the amount paid by the licensee to
15 such horsemen and breeders funds for the full two thousand nineteen
16 calendar year adjusted annually by the lesser of (i) consumer price
17 index for all urban consumers, as published annually by the United
18 States department of labor bureau of labor statistics or (ii) two and
19 four-tenths percent. Of the amount paid pursuant to this paragraph,
20 eighty-seven percent will be paid to the horsemen and the remainder will
21 be paid to the agricultural and New York state horse breeding develop-
22 ment fund and the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development
23 fund.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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