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HOUSE BILL NO. 224 – Pari-mutuel wagers/advance deposit

HOUSE BILL NO. 224

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H0224.........................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING - Amends existing law to clarify that advance deposit
wagering on horse racing conducted by horse racing licensees is declared to be
lawful; to provide procedures; to provide limits; and to provide for rules by
the Racing Commission.
                                                                        
02/10    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/11    Rpt prt - to St Aff

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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-seventh Legislature                 First Regular Session - 2003
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 224
                                                                        
                                 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO HORSE RACING; AMENDING SECTION 54-2512,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO  CLARIFY
  3        THAT  ADVANCE  DEPOSIT  WAGERING ON HORSE RACING CONDUCTED BY LICENSEES IS
  4        DECLARED TO BE LAWFUL, TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES, TO  PROVIDE  LIMITS  AND  TO
  5        PROVIDE FOR RULES BY THE RACING COMMISSION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
                                                                        
  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 a total race handle  from
 36        both  live  races  and  simulcast  races  exceeding  five  million dollars
 37        ($5,000,000) during the last calendar year in operation shall not  have  a
 38        license  authorizing simulcasting and/or televised races issued or renewed
 39        if the licensee has not run in the calendar year immediately preceding the
 40        year for which the application for a license is being made  for  at  least
 41        ninety  percent  (90%) of the number of live race days that were conducted
 42        by that licensee in 1989.
 43        (c)  The commission may issue a license authorizing simulcast and/or tele-
                                                                        
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  1        vised races to a live horse race licensee only  after  that  licensee  has
  2        conducted  at  that  facility  a minimum of forty (40) live horse races in
  3        each of the two (2) calendar years  preceding  the  application  for  such
  4        license.  The  requirements  of this paragraph are only applicable to live
  5        horse race licensees who have  received  their  initial  live  horse  race
  6        license after April 1, 1997.
  7        (3)  Such  pari-mutuel  system conducted at such race meet shall not under
  8    any circumstances, if conducted under the provisions of this act and  in  con-
  9    formity    thereto and to the rules of the commission, be held or construed to
 10    be unlawful, other statutes of this state to the contrary notwithstanding.
 11        (4)  The participation by a licensee in an  interstate  combined  wagering
 12    pool does not cause that licensee to be considered to be doing business in any
 13    jurisdiction  other  than the jurisdiction in which the licensee is physically
 14    located.
 15        (5)  Advance deposit wagering on horse racing conducted  by  licensees  is
 16    hereby  declared  to be lawful and within the scope of the licensee's license.
 17    As used in this section "advance deposit wagering" shall mean a form of wager-
 18    ing in which an account holder may deposit money with a licensee and then  use
 19    the  balance  to fund wagers. The bettor can then contact the licensee  from a
 20    remote location without actually being physically present  at  the  licensee's
 21    premises  in  order to communicate the desired use of those funds for wagering
 22    purposes. However, no wager can be accepted by the licensee that  exceeds  the
 23    amount  in  the account held by the licensee for the person placing the wager.
 24    Any  advance deposit wagering conducted by a person with someone other than  a
 25    licensee  is  unlawful  and  all such persons conducting the unlawful  advance
 26    deposit wagering shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The commission may  promul-
 27    gate  rules  pursuant  to  chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, to implement this
 28    subsection.
 29        (6)  Pari-mutuel taxes or commissions may not be imposed  on  any  amounts
 30    wagered  in  an  interstate  combined wagering pool other than amounts wagered
 31    within this jurisdiction.
 32        (67)  It shall be unlawful to conduct pool selling, bookmaking, or to cir-
 33    culate handbooks, or to bet or wager on a race  of  any  licensed  race  meet,
 34    other  than  by the pari-mutuel system; and it shall further be unlawful know-
 35    ingly to permit any minor to use the pari-mutuel system.
                                                                        
 36        SECTION 2.  An emergency existing  therefor,  which  emergency  is  hereby
 37    declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its
 38    passage and approval.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                            RS 12887C1
The purpose of this legislation is to declare that advance
deposit wagering conducted by licensees is hereby declared to be
lawful in the State of Idaho and within the scope of the
licensee's license. Congress has said that interstate pari-mutuel
wagering on racing by telephone or other electronic means is
permitted under the Interstate Horseracing Act (IHA). Presently,
any wagering conducted in this manner by Idaho residents is being
done out of state, thus, these monies are not subject to the
withholdings as described in Idaho Code 54-2513.
                          FISCAL IMPACT

No fiscal impact to the General Fund.

Contact
Name: Rep. Janet Miller 
Phone: 208/332-1000
Name: Stan Boyd, Les Bois Park
Phone: 344-3371


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                      H 224