Bill Text: NY S06390 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the improvement of operations in thoroughbred racing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S06390 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06390-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6390

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- (at request of the New York State Gaming
          Commission) -- 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 improvement of operation in thoroughbred racing

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 218 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breed-
     2  ing law, as amended by chapter 140 of the laws of 2008,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    §  218.  Stewards  at  race meetings. There shall be three stewards to
     5  supervise each running race meeting conducted pursuant to  sections  two
     6  hundred  five  and two hundred six of this article. One of such stewards
     7  shall be the official steward of the [board] commission,  one  shall  be
     8  appointed  by  the  jockey club or by the national steeplechase and hunt
     9  association as may be appropriate, and one shall  be  appointed  by  the
    10  corporation  conducting  such race meeting. Such stewards shall exercise
    11  such powers and perform such duties at  each  race  meeting  as  may  be
    12  prescribed by the rules of the [state racing and wagering board] commis-
    13  sion.   During the absence or inability to act of an official steward of
    14  the [board] commission, or in the event of the failure or  inability  to
    15  appoint  either of the other two stewards, the powers and duties of such
    16  steward shall be exercised and performed  [without  compensation]  by  a
    17  [member  of  the  board] person designated by the [board] commission for
    18  that purpose.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09117-01-9