Bill Text: NY S08628 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to issuing temporary permits to certain fantasy sports operators that were not offering contests to persons located in New York prior to November 10, 2015.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-23 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S08628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08628-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8628

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
          ing

        AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
          relation to issuing temporary permits to certain fantasy sports opera-
          tors

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2 of section 1402 of the racing, pari-mutuel
     2  wagering and breeding law, as added by chapter 237 of the laws of  2016,
     3  is amended and subdivision 1 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (c)  Additional  interactive  fantasy  sports  operators, who were not
     6  offering contests to persons located in New York prior to the  tenth  of
     7  November, two thousand fifteen, may apply for a temporary permit subject
     8  to  approval by the gaming commission, provided that such operator meets
     9  all the requirements of this article.
    10    2. The commission shall provide a temporary permit [to  each  operator
    11  that  was offering contests pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision one
    12  of this section] to allow [such operator  to  continue]  an  interactive
    13  fantasy  sports operator to offer such contests, on a provisional basis,
    14  until such operator's application for registration has been approved  or
    15  denied  in  accordance with section fourteen hundred three of this arti-
    16  cle, provided that such operator meets all the requirements  in  section
    17  fourteen hundred four of this article.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14829-01-2