Bill Text: NY A04186 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits off-track betting corporation vehicles from being used as take-home vehicles by board members, officers, employees, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, or agents of such corporation or by certain family members of such individuals; provides an exception therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to racing and wagering [A04186 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04186-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4186

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, WALLACE, RIVERA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation  to  prohibiting  off-track betting corporation vehicles from
          being used as take-home vehicles

          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 503-c to read as follows:
     3    § 503-c. Prohibition on take-home vehicles. 1. No  regional  off-track
     4  betting corporation shall issue to any board member, officer, or employ-
     5  ee  of  such  corporation, any contractor, subcontractor, consultant, or
     6  other agent of such corporation, or any spouse, child, sibling or parent
     7  residing in the principal place  of  abode  of  any  of  such  foregoing
     8  persons  a  motor vehicle. All motor vehicles leased, owned or otherwise
     9  controlled by such corporation shall be returned to corporation property
    10  when not being used for official business of such corporation.
    11    2. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section,  a  regional  off-
    12  track  betting  corporation shall be allowed to issue take-home vehicles
    13  to employees and officers provided such corporation has a written policy
    14  on take-home vehicles that is compliant with the  office  of  the  state
    15  comptroller  rules  and  regulations,  that such written policy has been
    16  approved by the gaming commission, and such policy and  records  related
    17  to  such  written  policy  are subject to random audits conducted by the
    18  gaming commission.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02066-01-3