STATE OF NEW YORK
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6667
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to maintenance of effort by off-track betting corporations
accepting wagers on out-of-state or out-of-country races
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 1017 of the racing,
2 pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by chapter 174 of the
3 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. Maintenance of effort. Any off-track betting corporation which
5 engages in accepting wagers on the simulcasts of thoroughbred races from
6 out-of-state or out-of-country as permitted under subdivision one of
7 this section shall submit to the commission, for its approval, a sched-
8 ule of payments to be made in any year or portion thereof, that such
9 off-track corporation engages in nighttime thoroughbred simulcasting. In
10 order to be approved by the commission, prior to January first, two
11 thousand eighteen, the payment schedule shall be identical to the actual
12 payments and distributions of such payments to tracks and purses made by
13 such off-track corporation pursuant to the provisions of section one
14 thousand fifteen of this article during the year two thousand two, as
15 derived from out-of-state harness races displayed after 6:00 P.M. On and
16 after January first, two thousand eighteen no such payments and distrib-
17 utions of payments shall be made to tracks from any regional off-track
18 betting corporation in which a track is wholly contained; provided,
19 further, that on and after January first, two thousand twenty no such
20 payments and distributions shall be made to tracks from any off-track
21 betting corporation. If approved by the commission, such scheduled
22 payments shall be made from revenues derived from any simulcasting
23 conducted pursuant to this section and section one thousand fifteen of
24 this article.
25 § 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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