Amendment ID: S2426-26

Amendment 26

The simulcasting of Greyhound Racing

Mr. Brady moves to amend the bill by striking out section 4 and 5 and replacing with the following new sections:-

"SECTION 4. Sections 11, 12, and 12A, of chapter 494 of the acts of 1978, are hereby revoked.

SECTION 4(A). Where the greyhound racing licensees have been prohibited from holding a live greyhound racing meeting since January 1, 2010, all payments made since that date, by the greyhound racing meeting licensees into the Greyhound Capital Improvements Trust Fund and Greyhound Promotional Trust Fund established by section 4 of chapter 277 of the acts of 1986, were erroneously paid, and the Comptroller shall refund all such payments to the greyhound racing meeting licensees

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the maximum fee and assessment that shall be payable by a racing meeting licensee to the Commission, for simulcast wagering during dark days, shall be $300.00 per dark day when simulcast wagering is conducted.

and,

by striking out, in lines 132,135,138, 142,145, 148, 151, 154, 157, 160, 163, 166, 169, the following words:- "2024" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- "2028"'.

and

by inserting after section 18, the following new sections:-

SECTION 18(a). Section 2 of chapter 128C of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby

amended by inserting after the word “simulcast”, in line 14, the following words:- at any location

in Suffolk county approved by the commission.

SECTION 18(b). Said section 2 of said chapter 128C, as so appearing, is hereby further

amended by inserting after the word “simulcast”, in line 42, the following words:- at any location

in Bristol and Plymouth county approved by the commission.

SECTION 18(c). Said section 2 of said chapter 128C, as so appearing, is hereby further

amended by inserting after the word “simulcast”, in line 111, the following words:- at any

location in Suffolk and Plymouth county approved by the commission."