S1957 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Specifies who can operate a handicapping tournament; requires handicapping tournament operators to distribute no less than eighty percent of entry fees as prizes to the winners of a handicapping tournament; requires that five percent of the portion of the gross revenue collected by an operator on handicapping tournament entry fees from New York participants that is not distributed as prizes to the winners of a tournament be distributed quarterly by such operator to the horsemen's organization for welfare and medical plans for regularly employed backstretch employees.
- Title
- Relates to handicapping tournaments
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-14
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2023-01-17
- Active version
- S1957A
- Same as
- A3611
- Law section
- Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Sponsors
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. State Senator, District 15
Co-sponsors
- Leroy Comrie State Senator, District 14
Heard in committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Racing, Gaming And Wagering NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A3611 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Racing, Gaming And Wagering, 2024-05-14 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Racing, Gaming And Wagering, 2023-02-13 Referred to committee; referred to Finance