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HOUSE BILL NO. 733 – Horse racing, simulcast, licensure

HOUSE BILL NO. 733

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H0733......................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
HORSE RACING - Amends existing law relating to the Idaho Racing Commission
to eliminate a requirement for two years of live race experience prior to
licensure as a simulcast race site.
                                                                        
03/10    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/13    Rpt prt - to St Aff

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 H0733
                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-fifth Legislature                  Second Regular Session - 2000
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 733
                                                                        
                                 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO THE IDAHO RACING COMMISSION; AMENDING SECTION 54-2512, IDAHO CODE,
  3        TO REVISE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LARGE AND SMALL RACETRACKS AND TO  ELIMINATE
  4        A  REQUIREMENT FOR TWO YEARS OF LIVE RACE EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO LICENSURE AS
  5        A SIMULCAST RACE SITE.
                                                                        
  6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  7        SECTION 1.  That Section 54-2512, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
  8    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  9        54-2512.  PARI-MUTUEL  BETTING  -- OTHER BETTING ILLEGAL. (1) Any licensee
 10    conducting a race meet under this act may provide a place  or  places  in  the
 11    race  meet  grounds or enclosure at which such licensee may conduct and super-
 12    vise the use of the pari-mutuel system by patrons on the result of  the  races
 13    conducted  by such licensee at such race meet and, upon written application by
 14    a licensee and approval by the commission, on the result of  simulcast  and/or
 15    televised  races.  The  commission shall issue no more than one (1) license to
 16    simulcast per live race meet licensee and there shall be no more  simulcasting
 17    sites in the state than there are licensed live race meet sites.
 18        (2)  (a) Licenses  authorizing  simulcast  and/or  televised races will be
 19        regulated by the commission, in addition to  its  other  responsibilities,
 20        for  the  purpose  of  enhancing,  promoting, and protecting the live race
 21        industry in the state of Idaho. No license authorizing simulcasting and/or
 22        televised races shall be issued to or renewed for  persons  that  are  not
 23        also  licensed  to  conduct live race meets in the state of Idaho. Persons
 24        applying for a simulcast and/or televised race license shall have annually
 25        conducted live race meets in the state of Idaho during the  preceding  two
 26        (2)  calendar years, and have an agreement reached voluntarily or pursuant
 27        to binding arbitration in conformance with chapter 9, title 7, Idaho Code,
 28        with a horsemen's group as the term "horsemen's group" is defined in  sec-
 29        tion  54-2502, Idaho Code. The agreement shall address, but not be limited
 30        to, number of live race days and percentage of the live race and simulcast
 31        handle that is dedicated to the live horse race purse structure. Race days
 32        agreed upon shall be submitted to the  Idaho  racing  commission  for  its
 33        approval.
 34        (b)  In addition to the restrictions recited in paragraph (a) of this sub-
 35        section,  live  horse race licensees that have had an average daily live a
 36        total race handle of more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) from  both
 37        live races and simulcast races exceeding five million dollars ($5,000,000)
 38        during the last calendar year in operation shall not have a license autho-
 39        rizing simulcasting and/or televised races issued or renewed if the licen-
 40        see  has  not  run in the calendar year immediately preceding the year for
 41        which the application for a license is being made for at least ninety per-
 42        cent (90%) of the number of live races that were conducted by that  licen-
 43        see in 1989.
                                                                        
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  1        (c)  The commission may issue a license authorizing simulcast and/or tele-
  2        vised  races  to  a  live horse race licensee only after that licensee has
  3        conducted at that facility a minimum of forty (40)  live  horse  races  in
  4        each  of  the  two  (2)  calendar years preceding the application for such
  5        license. The requirements of this paragraph are only  applicable  to  live
  6        horse  race  licensees  who  have  received  their initial live horse race
  7        license after April 1, 1997.
  8        (3)  Such pari-mutuel system conducted at such race meet shall  not  under
  9    any  circumstances,  if conducted under the provisions of this act and in con-
 10    formity thereto and to the rules of the commission, be held or construed to be
 11    unlawful, other statutes of this state to the contrary notwithstanding.
 12        (4)  The participation by a licensee in an  interstate  combined  wagering
 13    pool does not cause that licensee to be considered to be doing business in any
 14    jurisdiction  other  than the jurisdiction in which the licensee is physically
 15    located.
 16        (5)  Pari-mutuel taxes or commissions may not be imposed  on  any  amounts
 17    wagered  in  an  interstate  combined wagering pool other than amounts wagered
 18    within this jurisdiction.
 19        (6)  It shall be unlawful to conduct pool selling, book making, or to cir-
 20    culate handbooks, or to bet or wager on a race  of  any  licensed  race  meet,
 21    other  than  by the pari-mutuel system; and it shall further be unlawful know-
 22    ingly to permit any minor to use the pari-mutuel system.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


     
                           
                 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                       RS 10260 
     
     This proposed legislation eliminates a requirement for two years of live races
     before obtaining a license to simulcast. 
     
     
                    FISCAL IMPACT
     
     None 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     Contact 
     Name: Rep. Loertscher, Hornbeck, Kunz, Judd
     Phone: (208) 332-1000 
     
     
                                             STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                                H 733