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New York Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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| A00382 | Expands advertising restrictions for gaming facility licensees and applicants to include mobile sports wagering licensees. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00727 | Prohibits the use of performance-enhancing drugs in horseracing. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00741 | Requires the installation and use of surveillance cameras in all racetracks; provides cameras shall be capable of monitoring human and equine traffic in and out of individual stalls, barns and surrounding areas; provides video footage shall be available for review for no less than three years from the date of surveillance. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00872 | Relates to the operation of games of chance by employees of authorized organizations. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01514 | Allows any person who holds a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises to allow players to engage in certain recreational contests. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01725 | Authorizes gambling on professional sporting events and athletic events sponsored by universities or colleges at betting facilities located at thoroughbred and harness racetracks operating in this state, in simulcast theaters operated by off-track betting corporations and in any constitutionally authorized casino facility; provides that the proceeds of such gambling be applied exclusively to or in aid or support of education. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02257 | Allows the legislature to authorize pool-selling without profit. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02260 | Allows bars and restaurants to organize and manage sports squares pools, provided that they do not take any profit from such pools. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A03208 | Authorizes housing authorities to operate bingo games; adds guests invited by residents of any apartment, condominium or cooperative complex, housing authority, retirement community, or other group residential complex or facility to the scope of application; allows games to be conducted two days per week; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03250 | Clarifies certain provisions regarding conflicts of interest of certain public employees regarding the licensing of a participant in horse racing activities. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03400 | Permits participation in games of bingo by minors who are accompanied by an adult. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03680 | Requires written consent of the New York thoroughbred horsemen's association representing at least fifty-one percent of the horsemen using the facilities of the franchised corporation prior to allocation or spending of funds from certain accounts. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03681 | Removes restrictions on the frequency certain authorized organizations may conduct bingo games. | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |
| A04279 | Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| A04280 | Enacts the "choice in responsible gaming act"; requires mobile sports wagering operators to establish default betting limits on their platform and to notify authorized sports bettors of their ability to opt-out of the default betting limits; directs the gaming commission to determine the monetary limit and defined period of time for such betting limits. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| A04333 | Provides that $1,600,000 of any funds from gaming devices located within the county of Niagara shall be transferred to the Niagara county industrial development agency for use to fund downtown economic development initiatives within the city of Niagara Falls. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04472 | Directs revenue from certain mobile casino gaming activities to be used for school safety and security purposes. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04543 | Relates to monies appropriated and received each year by the state as a portion of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A05270 | Relates to the right to hold race meetings and races after sunset at Belmont Park, only at the main track in its current configuration, but only if such races conclude before 10:30 P.M. and only occur on Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05901 | Provides for the sharing of thirty percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Oneida; provides for the sharing of twenty-five percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05904 | Relates to creating a racing fan advisory board to provide advice to the state racing and wagering board on issues related to horse racing and wagering; establishes an I Love NY Racing promotion and the New York State Horse Racing Farm of the Year Award. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05919 | Provides that the disposition of net revenues of regional off-track betting corporations to participating counties may be divided on an annual, bi-annual or quarterly basis as determined by such corporations. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05920 | Authorizes the state gaming commission to impose monetary fines upon any corporation, association or person participating in a thoroughbred race meeting or off-track betting, whether licensed by such commission or not, for violation of a commission rule or regulation; does not apply to track or parlor patrons. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05921 | Creates the jockey health insurance reserve fund for the payment of premiums not yet paid; provides for the return of funds if such reserve fund becomes no longer necessary. | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| A05922 | Authorizes interactive gaming in the state of New York. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05923 | Provides for payments to licensed harness tracks by regional off-track betting corporations. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05924 | Provides for the amount to be paid by off-track betting corporations to regional harness tracks from out-of-state and out-of-country simulcast revenue. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05925 | Relates to utilizing funds from the capital acquisition fund for the payment of salaries and benefits of employees and other expenses of regional off-track betting corporations. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05936 | Authorizes additional forms of games of chance currency for certain games of chance licensees. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A05940 | Allows off-track betting corporations to set up special reserve funds to use as an alternative to current capital acquisition funds. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A05958 | Directs that any net revenue distributed to participating counties or cities by regional off-track betting corporations shall be used exclusively for real property tax relief. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06006 | Provides for and requires equine screening and advanced imaging to be conducted by a land grant university within this state at a location proximate to a racetrack owned by the state. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06013 | Amends the definition of sports wager to include other things of value; changes the licensing requirement for mobile sports wagering operators; provides the state shall by no later than January 31, 2026 have fourteen operators and by January 31, 2027 have sixteen operators; provides tax rates shall be determined based on the number of operators. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06017 | Eases certain restrictions on the conducting of games of chance for charitable purposes; authorizes auxiliary members of authorized organizations to operate games of chance; authorizes conducting of games of chance on Sundays; expands advertising of games of chance; eases certain restrictions on the conducting of bingo games for charitable purposes; expands the frequency upon which bingo games may be held; authorizes auxiliary members of authorized organizations to conduct bingo games; authorize | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06019 | Relates to the transferring of monies held in the non-escrowed account for payment of outstanding winning tickets and for payment of refunds to ticket holders; any amount that remains unclaimed after April first of each year shall be transferred to the regional corporation's operating account. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06022 | Includes contests wherein participants select whether athletes, in the case of sporting events, shall accumulate more or less than a target score set by an operator, as an interactive fantasy sports contest; provides a definition for interactive fantasy sports gross revenue; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06027 | Authorizes interactive gaming and interactive lottery gaming in the state of New York. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06030 | Allows certain interactive poker games be considered games of skill rather than games of luck; includes definitions, authorization, required safeguards and minimum standards, the scope of licensing review and state tax implications; makes corresponding penal law amendments. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06034 | Relates to harness racing; limits racing at harness tracks to only registered standardbred horses. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06035 | Provides specific authority to video stream live races to any New York licensed track or off-track betting corporation which accepts internet wagers. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06038 | Eases certain restrictions on the conducting of games of chance for charitable purposes; authorizes the payment, out of the net proceeds of games of chance, of reimbursement for reasonable expenses of volunteers working at the games; expands the frequency upon which games of chance may be held; authorizes auxiliary members of authorized organizations to operate games of chance; authorizes persons convicted of crimes to operate games of chance when participating in a rehabilitation program; autho | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06039 | Relates to the Catskill off-track betting corporation providing licensing and financing to the Monticello racetrack and the ability to provide capital improvements. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06042 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06045 | Establishes the commission on retired racehorses, which shall be responsible for the oversight of retired racehorses including the creation of a registry to track such racehorses. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06048 | Provides that the additional vendor fee for a vendor track located within Oneida county within fifteen miles of a Native American class III gaming facility shall not be forfeited if the track does not maintain the ninety percent full-time equivalent employee requirement. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06073 | Prohibits wagers on a horse racing event unless such racing event is offered pursuant to a fixed odds sports wagering agreement; authorizes agreements between a mobile sports wagering operator and an affiliate to locate self-service sports betting kiosks upon the premises of the affiliate. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06075 | Extends the provisions relating to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund until eleven years after the commencement of the operation of a video lottery terminal facility at Aqueduct racetrack. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06077 | Expands off-track betting to include the five counties comprising the city of New York which shall now be considered part of the Catskill region. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06085 | Repeals provisions prohibiting the conduct of unregistered interactive fantasy sports contests; provides that interactive fantasy sports contests are not considered a contest of chance constituting a gambling offense under the penal law. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06099 | Authorizes licensing of bowling establishments to offer video gaming if structure allows for segregated areas from patrons under 21 years of age; entitles the operators of bowling establishments to vendor fees where video lottery terminals are located. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06117 | Provides that antitrust laws shall not apply to any joint agreement entered into, in consultation with and jointly approved by the state gaming commission and the attorney general, by or among non-profit associations, thoroughbred racing associations or corporations, harness racing associations or corporations, quarter horse racing associations or corporations and regional off-track betting corporations to coordinate the dates and times under which they will conduct programs of racing and offer | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06457 | Extends the provisions relating to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund until seventeen years after the commencement of the operation of a video lottery terminal facility at Aqueduct racetrack. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06512 | Prohibits certain licensed entities from limiting, prohibiting, or requiring certain bets or banning a player based, in any part, on the player's success, except in cases where the player exceeds certain threshold win and loss caps. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06555 | Requires the state to keep state lottery winners' identities anonymous to the general public if requested by the lottery winner. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06655 | Requires the return of unsold instant lottery game tickets to the division of the lottery when a licensed agent goes out of business, sells their business or if their license is suspended or revoked. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06710 | Relates to commission hearings of racetrack ejectments and denials of access of commission licensees. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| A06745 | Prohibits online sweepstakes games and revenue from illegal markets; sets penalties; provides for enforcement of provisions. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06814 | Prohibits individuals under the age of twenty-one from gambling. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06875 | Provides for standardbred equine drug testing standards by permitting the New York state gaming commission to participate in the interstate compact on anti-doping and drug testing standards. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06933 | Imposes civil penalties; provides a private cause of action against entities knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06937 | Requires all withdrawal transactions made through a service provided by a mobile sports wagering licensee to be irreversible by the withdrawing consumer, the licensee or another at the consumer's request. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06944 | Requires frequent warnings for mobile gaming about the addictive nature of such gaming. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A07128 | Relates to the internet sale of raffle tickets. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07338 | Provides exceptions to the three-year prohibition of employment with the New York state gaming commission; excludes starters from the three-year prohibition; allows the commission to provide exceptions during the hiring process. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07475 | Relates to authorizing and regulating the use of electronic bell jar vending machines; requires responsible placement and operation of electronic bell jar vending machines; allows for geographic considerations for such machine placement. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| A07581 | Removes the prohibition on sports wagering on sports events involving New York college teams. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07629 | Increases distributions for problem gambling education and treatment purposes to $12 million. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07802 | Requires harness racetrack locations awarded a gaming facility license maintain live racing activity. | Crossed Over | 04/11/2025 |
| A07903 | Designates an individual found to have harassed or shown a harmful pattern of conduct directed at amateur or professional athletes, coaches, officials, or participants of a sports event, including but not limited to certain instances of verbal, written or electronic threats, lewd or obscene statements or images, vandalism or nonconsensual physical contact, as a prohibited sports bettor. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07962 | Establishes certain limits on sports betting for both mobile and casino sports betting to include advertisements, wager limits, and prohibiting the use of credit cards to make deposits on mobile sports betting. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| A08050 | Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08167 | Authorizes up to two percent of mobile sports tax revenue, but not more than twenty million dollars, be used for youth team sports funding to be distributed by county youth bureaus, city of New York's department of youth and community development, and an organization which supports and invests in programs that use sports as a vehicle for youth development and social change. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08206 | Relates to welfare, medical, and retirement plans provided by a horsemen's organization in the absence of contractual obligations; provides in the absence of a contract between the licensed harness racing corporation or association and the representative horsemen's organization, the state gaming commission shall require such corporation or association to pay to the horsemen's organization an amount determined in accordance with the previously negotiated contract for welfare, medical, or retireme | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08361 | Relates to sports wagers placed in video lottery gaming facilities. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08667 | Permits employees of authorized organizations to operate games of chance. | In Committee | 05/27/2025 |
| A08724 | Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators from enabling or otherwise permitting authorized sports bettors to deposit or withdraw funds to or from their account through gift certificates, open loop gift certificates, or e-wallets. | In Committee | 06/02/2025 |
| A08789 | Prohibits regional off-track betting corporations from providing items of value exceeding fifteen dollars to any board member, officer, or employee of the corporation, any contractor, subcontractor, consultant, or other agent of the corporation, or any spouse, child, sibling or parent of such persons; adds reporting requirements for regional off-track betting corporations. | In Committee | 06/05/2025 |
| A08790 | Prohibits off-track betting corporation vehicles from being used as take-home vehicles by board members, officers, employees, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, or agents of such corporation or by certain family members of such individuals; provides an exception therefor. | In Committee | 06/05/2025 |
| A08838 | Increases the excess limit for funds in the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund from seventy-five thousand dollars to five hundred thousand dollars. | In Committee | 06/09/2025 |
| A08916 | Prohibits licensees from relying on artificial intelligence for tracking and advertisement purposes and using such artificial intelligence to create personalized advertisements. | In Committee | 07/16/2025 |
| A08925 | Provides that no advertisement by or on behalf of a mobile sports wagering licensee shall be publicly disseminated during the broadcast of any live sporting event. | In Committee | 07/16/2025 |
| A08928 | Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and mobile sports wagering platforms from allowing more than five deposits from an authorized sports bettor in a twenty-four hour period. | In Committee | 07/16/2025 |
| A09113 | Requires that procedures for placements on, and removals from, the list of persons self-excluded from gambling includes procedures that allow a person to submit requests electronically. | In Committee | 09/26/2025 |
| A09125 | Provides that mobile sports wagering operators and mobile sports wagering platforms are prohibited from limiting the size and frequency of deposits or wagers of authorized sports bettors because the bettor obtains financial benefit or due to the bettor's waging activity; provides exceptions for suspicious wagering activity and indications of a gambling disorder; requires such operators and platforms to provide electronic written notice when an authorized sports bettor is limited or banned. | In Committee | 09/26/2025 |
| S02294 | Permits employees of authorized organizations to operate games of chance. | Crossed Over | 04/28/2025 |
| S02611 | Permits participation in games of bingo by minors who are accompanied by an adult. | Crossed Over | 06/05/2025 |
| S02618 | Creates the jockey health insurance reserve fund for the payment of premiums not yet paid; provides for the return of funds if such reserve fund becomes no longer necessary. | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |
| S08238 | Relates to self-exclusion provisions; provides for moneys forfeited by self-exclusion to be deposited in certain gaming commission accounts. | Crossed Over | 06/11/2025 |