Bill Text: NY A06946 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits racing or licensing race meetings on Palm Sunday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-20 - signed chap.443 [A06946 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06946-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6946
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 15, 2015
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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  allotting dates for racing or licensing race meetings at
         which pari-mutuel betting is permitted on Palm Sunday
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 109 of the racing, pari-mutuel
    2  wagering and breeding law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 60
    3  of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    4    1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
    5  all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
    6  December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December  twenty-fifth[,
    7  Palm Sunday] and Easter Sunday; and
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10410-01-5