New York A 5923: Relates to allowing the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County to provide driver education courses in middle school or elementary school locations

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A05923 Summary:

BILL NOA05923 

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SPONSORWoerner

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Amd §§1016 & 1017, RWB L

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Provides for payments to licensed harness tracks by regional off-track betting corporations.

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BILL NOA05923 

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02/24/2025referred to racing and wagering

01/07/2026referred to racing and wagering

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5923

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- 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 payments by off-track betting corporations to regional
 licensed harness tracks

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

 1 Section 1. Clause (E) of subparagraph 5 of paragraph b of subdivision
 2 1 of section 1016 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law,
 3 as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2008 and item (ii) as amended by
 4 chapter 243 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
 5 (E) [On] During the first one hundred twenty days in any calendar year
 6 when a franchised corporation is not conducting a race meeting [and when
 7 a licensed harness track is neither accepting wagers nor displaying the
 8 signal from an in-state thoroughbred corporation or association or an
 9 out-of-state thoroughbred track]:
 10 (i) [Such] A licensed regional harness track shall receive in lieu of
 11 any other payments on wagers placed at off-track betting facilities
 12 outside the special betting district on races conducted by an in-state
 13 thoroughbred racing corporation, two and eight-tenths percent on regular
 14 and multiple bets during a regional meeting and one and nine-tenths
 15 percent of such bets if there is no regional meeting and four and eight-
 16 tenths percent on exotic bets on days on which there is a regional meet-
 17 ing and three and four-tenths percent of such bets if there is no
 18 regional meeting.
 19 (ii) [Such] A licensed regional harness track shall receive [one and
 20 one-half] three-quarters of one percent on total regional handle on
 21 races conducted at out-of-state or out-of-country thoroughbred tracks.
 22 (iii) In those regions in which there is more than one licensed
 23 regional harness track, [if no track is accepting wagers or displaying
 24 the live simulcast signal from the out-of-state track,] the total sum

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09476-01-5

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 1 shall be divided among the tracks in proportion to the ratio the wagers
 2 placed on races conducted by each track bears to the corporation's total
 3 in-region harness handle. [If one or more tracks are accepting wagers or
 4 displaying the live simulcast signal, the total amount shall be divided
 5 among those tracks not accepting wagers or displaying the simulcast
 6 signal for an out-of-state track or in-state thoroughbred corporation or
 7 association.]
 8 § 2. Clause (F) of subparagraph 6 of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of
 9 section 1016 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as
 10 amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2008 and item (ii) as amended by
 11 chapter 243 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
 12 (F) [On] During the first one hundred twenty days in any calendar year
 13 when a franchised corporation is not conducting a race meeting [and when
 14 a licensed harness track is neither accepting wagers nor displaying the
 15 signal from an in-state thoroughbred corporation or association or an
 16 out-of-state thoroughbred track]:
 17 (i) [Such] A licensed regional harness track shall receive in lieu of
 18 any other payments on wagers placed at off-track betting facilities
 19 outside the special betting district on races conducted by an in-state
 20 thoroughbred racing corporation, two and eight-tenths percent on regular
 21 and multiple bets during a regional me