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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4618
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 16, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 228 of
     2  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter
     3  134 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    The [state racing and wagering board] New York state gaming commission
     5  shall, as a condition of racing, require any franchised corporation  and
     6  every  other  corporation  subject  to  its jurisdiction to withhold one
     7  percent of all purses,  except  that  for  the  franchised  corporation,
     8  starting  on  September first, two thousand seven and continuing through
     9  August thirty-first, two thousand [thirteen] fourteen,  two  percent  of
    10  all  purses shall be withheld, and, in the case of the franchised corpo-

    11  ration, to pay such sum to the horsemen's organization or its  successor
    12  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section in
    13  accordance with rules of the [board] commission adopted effective Novem-
    14  ber third, nineteen hundred eighty-three representing at least fifty-one
    15  percent of the owners and trainers  utilizing  the  facilities  of  such
    16  franchised  corporation, on the condition that such horsemen's organiza-
    17  tion shall expend as much as is necessary, but not to exceed one-half of
    18  one percent of such total sum, to acquire  and  maintain  the  equipment
    19  required  to  establish  a  program at a state college within this state
    20  with an approved equine science program to  test  for  the  presence  of
    21  steroids  in  horses,  provided  further that the qualified organization
    22  shall also, in an amount to be determined by  its  board  of  directors,

    23  annually  include in its expenditures for benevolence programs, funds to
    24  support an organization  providing  services  necessary  to  backstretch
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08909-03-3
        S. 4618                             2
 
     1  employees,  and, in the case of every other corporation, to pay such one
     2  percent sum of purses to the horsemen's organization  or  its  successor
     3  that  was first entitled to receive payments pursuant to this section in
     4  accordance  with  rules  of the [board] commission adopted effective May
     5  twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-six representing at  least  fifty-

     6  one  percent of the owners and trainers utilizing the facilities of such
     7  corporation.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.