Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-96

LOC 96

Brockton Fairgrounds Live Racing

Messrs. Brady and Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, SECTION XXX.  Notwithstanding chapters 128A and 128C of the General Laws, and any other general or special law to the contrary, at any time the commission may grant a running horse racing meeting license to the Middleborough Agricultural Society in connection with a state or county fair that it may conduct during calendar years 2016 and 2017, up to a maximum of thirty (30) days of racing during each calendar year with simulcast wagering, and pay to the commission, on behalf of the commonwealth, the same amounts that the running horse racing licensee in Suffolk county would be required to pay to the commission and commonwealth if said Suffolk county licensee conducted live races and simulcast wagering, except no capital improvement fund and promotional fund payments shall be made and no simulcast premiums and host track fees shall be payable between the Middleborough Agricultural Society and any other racing meeting licensee. The commission may approve a  purse agreement between the Middleborough Agricultural Society and the horsemen’s association that represents the horse owners that will be racing and where the purse agreement may provide for a percentage of such purses to be paid to the Middleborough Agricultural Society.