A11106 • 2025

Relates to licensing requirements for non-managing owners of standardbred horses

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Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to licensing requirements for non-managing owners of standardbred horses

Relates to licensing requirements for non-managing owners of standardbred horses Removes restrictions on the number of non-managing owners of a race horse; specifies in cases of multiple ownership only persons having a five percent or more ownership interest in such general or limited partnerships shall be required to be licensed as an owner.

What This Bill Does

Relates to licensing requirements for non-managing owners of standardbred horses Removes restrictions on the number of non-managing owners of a race horse; specifies in cases of multiple ownership only persons having a five percent or more ownership interest in such general or limited partnerships shall be required to be licensed as an owner.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO RACING AND WAGERING

Official Summary Text

Relates to licensing requirements for non-managing owners of standardbred horses
Removes restrictions on the number of non-managing owners of a race horse; specifies in cases of multiple ownership only persons having a five percent or more ownership interest in such general or limited partnerships shall be required to be licensed as an owner.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11106

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation  to  licensing  requirements for non-managing owners of stan-
          dardbred horses

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 303-a of the racing, pari-mutuel
     2  wagering  and  breeding  law,  as  amended by chapter 243 of the laws of
     3  2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) Non-managing owners. There shall be no restriction on  the  number
     5  of  non-managing  owners  of a race horse [except that no horse shall be
     6  entered or started that is owned by thirty-five or fewer  owners  unless
     7  all such owners are licensed; in the event that a horse is owned by more
     8  than  thirty-five  owners, only those individuals having a three percent
     9  or greater property interest in such  horse  shall  be  required  to  be
    10  licensed  as  an owner]. IN THE CASE OF MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP, ONLY PERSONS
    11  HAVING A FIVE PERCENT OR MORE OWNERSHIP  INTEREST  IN  SUCH  GENERAL  OR
    12  LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED AS AN OWNER.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15638-01-6