STATE OF NEW YORK
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5940
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- 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 allowing off-track betting corporations to set up special
reserve funds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law is
2 amended by adding a new section 509-b to read as follows:
3 § 509-b. Special reserve fund. The corporation may create and estab-
4 lish a special reserve fund for the purpose of making any statutory
5 payments to any New York state entity as required by law, including
6 payments to New York state tracks. Such special reserve fund shall
7 consist of the amounts specified pursuant to subdivision three-a of
8 section five hundred thirty-two of this chapter. No such one percent
9 contribution may be made to the special reserve fund if such one percent
10 contribution is made to the capital acquisition fund under section five
11 hundred nine-a of this article. If such one percent contribution is
12 made to the special reserve fund:
13 1. such contribution shall not exceed the amount of one percent of the
14 total pari-mutuel wagering pools for the quarter in which such contrib-
15 ution is made;
16 2. such contribution shall not reduce the amount of quarterly net
17 revenues, exclusive of surcharge revenues, to an amount less than fifty
18 percent of such net revenues; and
19 3. the balance of such fund shall not exceed the lesser of one percent
20 of total pari-mutuel wagering pools for the previous twelve months, or
21 the undepreciated value of the corporation's offices, facilities, and
22 premises.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09414-01-5
