Bill Text: NY A07187 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds tracks located in Westchester county to the tracks excepted from being considered regional tracks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-31 - SIGNED CHAP.241 [A07187 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07187-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7187
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation to the disposition of off-track pools
          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 1 of  section  527  of
     2  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by section
     3  4  of  part  BB of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    The disposition of the retained commission from pools  resulting  from
     6  regular,  multiple or exotic bets, as the case may be, whether placed on
     7  races run within a region or  outside  a  region,  conducted  by  racing
     8  corporations, harness racing associations or corporations, quarter horse
     9  racing associations or corporations or races run outside the state shall
    10  be governed by the tables in paragraphs a and b of this subdivision. The
    11  rate  denominated  "state  tax" shall represent the rate of a reasonable
    12  tax imposed upon the retained commission for the privilege of conducting
    13  off-track pari-mutuel betting, which tax is hereby levied and  shall  be
    14  payable  in the manner set forth in this section. Each off-track betting
    15  corporation shall pay to the gaming  commission  as  a  regulatory  fee,
    16  which fee is hereby levied, six-tenths of one percent of the total daily
    17  pools  of  such  corporation.  Each  corporation  shall  also pay twenty
    18  percent of the breaks derived from  bets  on  harness  races  and  fifty
    19  percent  of the breaks derived from bets on all other races to the agri-
    20  culture and New York State horse breeding and development  fund  and  to
    21  the  thoroughbred  breeding  and  development  fund,  the  total of such
    22  payments to be apportioned fifty percent to  each  such  fund.  For  the
    23  purposes  of  this  section, the New York city, Suffolk, Nassau, and the
    24  Catskill regions shall constitute a single region and  any  thoroughbred
    25  track  located  within the Capital District region shall be deemed to be
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06982-01-9
        A. 7187                             2
     1  within such single region. A "regional meeting" shall  refer  to  either
     2  harness  or  thoroughbred  meetings,  or  both, except that a franchised
     3  corporation shall not be a regional track for the purpose  of  receiving
     4  distributions  from  bets on thoroughbred races conducted by a thorough-
     5  bred track in the Catskill region conducting a mixed meeting.  With  the
     6  exception  of a harness racing association or corporation first licensed
     7  to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a track located in Tioga [or],  Sara-
     8  toga  or  Westchester  county  after  January  first, two thousand five,
     9  racing corporations first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel  racing  after
    10  January  first,  nineteen hundred eighty-six or a harness racing associ-
    11  ation or corporation first licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a
    12  track located in Genesee County after January first, two thousand  five,
    13  and  quarter  horse  tracks  shall not be "regional tracks"; if there is
    14  more than one harness track within a region, such  tracks  shall  evenly
    15  divide  payments  made  pursuant  to the tables in paragraphs a and b of
    16  this subdivision when neither track is running. In  the  event  a  track
    17  elects to reduce its retained percentage from any or all of its pari-mu-
    18  tuel  pools, the payments to the track holding the race and the regional
    19  track required by paragraphs a  and  b  of  this  subdivision  shall  be
    20  reduced  in  proportion to such reduction. Nothing in this section shall
    21  be construed to authorize the conduct of off-track betting  contrary  to
    22  the provisions of section five hundred twenty-three of this article.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.