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SENATE AMENDMENT
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Bill No. HB 1747, 2nd Eng.
Amendment No. 1
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11 The Committee on Ways and Means recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 3. Subsection (2) of section 550.09514,
19 Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 550.09514 Greyhound dogracing taxes; purse
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22 (2)(a) The division shall determine for each greyhound
23 permitholder the annual purse percentage rate of live handle
24 for the state fiscal year 1993-1994 by dividing total purses
25 paid on live handle by the permitholder, exclusive of payments
26 made from outside sources, during the 1993-1994 state fiscal
27 year by the permitholder's live handle for the 1993-1994 state
28 fiscal year. Each permitholder shall pay as purses for live
29 races conducted during its current race meet a percentage of
30 its live handle not less than the percentage determined under
31 this paragraph, exclusive of payments made by outside sources,
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SENATE AMENDMENT
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Bill No. HB 1747, 2nd Eng.
Amendment No. 1
1 for its 1993-1994 state fiscal year.
2 (b)1. Except as otherwise provided herein, in addition
3 to the minimum purse percentage required by paragraph (a),
4 each permitholder shall pay as purses, for fiscal year
5 1996-1997, an amount equal to 75 percent of the permitholder's
6 tax credit pursuant to s. 550.0951(1).
7 2. Except as otherwise set forth herein, in addition
8 to the minimum purse percentage required by paragraph (a),
9 beginning July 1, 1997, each permitholder shall pay as purses
10 an amount equal to 75 percent of the daily license fees paid
11 by each permitholder for the 1994-1995 fiscal year. This purse
12 supplement shall be disbursed weekly during the permitholder's
13 race meet and determined by dividing the purse supplement by
14 the number of performances approved for the permitholder
15 pursuant to its annual license and multiplied by the number of
16 performances conducted each week. For the greyhound
17 permitholders in the county where there are two greyhound
18 permitholders located as specified in s. 550.615(6), such
19 permitholders shall pay in the aggregate an amount equal to 75
20 percent of the daily license fees paid by such permitholders
21 for the 1994-1995 fiscal year. These permitholders shall be
22 jointly and severally liable for such purse payments.
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24 The additional purses provided by this paragraph must be used
25 exclusively for purses other than stakes. The division shall
26 conduct audits necessary to ensure compliance with this
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28 (c)1. The division shall require sufficient
29 documentation from each greyhound permitholder regarding
30 purses paid on live racing and greyhound intertrack and
31 simulcast broadcasts to assure that the annual purse
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SENATE AMENDMENT
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Bill No. HB 1747, 2nd Eng.
Amendment No. 1
1 percentage rates paid by each permitholder on the intertrack
2 or simulcast broadcasts are not reduced below those paid
3 during the 1993-1994 state fiscal year. In addition, Each
4 greyhound permitholder when conducting at least three live
5 performances during any week live races shall pay purses in
6 that week on wagers it accepts as a guest track on intertrack
7 and simulcast greyhound races at the same rate as it pays on
8 live races. Each greyhound permitholder when conducting at
9 least three live performances during any week acting as a host
10 track shall pay purses in that week, at the same rate as it
11 pays on live races, on wagers accepted on greyhound such races
12 at a guest track which is not conducting live racing and is
13 located within the same market area as the greyhound
14 permitholder conducting at least three live performances
15 during any week host.
16 2. For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term
17 "net proceeds" means the amount of contractual fee received by
18 the host for its services excluding the payment of pari-mutuel
19 taxes and the transmission cost of sending the broadcasts. One
20 quarter of the net proceeds received by a greyhound host track
21 on greyhound simulcast races shall be paid as purses at the
22 host track. Whenever net proceeds are retained by a greyhound
23 host track on greyhound intertrack broadcasts sent outside of
24 its market area, the host track shall pay purses at the host
25 track in an amount not less than .75 percent of the handle on
26 such greyhound races at the guest facility.
27 (d) The division shall require sufficient documentation
28 from each greyhound permitholder regarding purses paid on live
29 racing to assure that the annual purse percentage rates paid
30 by each permitholder on the live races are not reduced below
31 those paid during the 1993-94 state fiscal year. The division
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1 shall require sufficient documentation from each greyhound
2 permitholder to assure that the purses paid by each
3 permitholder on the greyhound intertrack and simulcast
4 broadcasts are in compliance with the requirements of
5 paragraph (c) of this section.
6 (e)(d) Each greyhound permitholder who conducted live
7 racing in state fiscal year 1993-1994 shall submit to the
8 division by September 1, 1996, purse payment records and
9 copies of purse contracts pertaining to greyhound racing that
10 were in effect during state fiscal year 1993-1994.
11 (f) Each greyhound permitholder shall, during the
12 permitholder's race meet, supply kennel operators and the
13 Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering with a weekly report showing
14 purses paid on live greyhound races and all greyhound
15 intertrack and simulcast broadcasts, including both as a guest
16 and a host together with the handle or commission calculations
17 on which such purses were paid, so that the kennel operators
18 may determine statutory and contractual compliance.
19 (g) Each greyhound permitholder shall make direct
20 payment of purses to the greyhound owners who have filed with
21 such permitholder appropriate federal taxpayer identification
22 information based on the percentage amount agreed upon between
23 the kennel operator and the greyhound owner.
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27 And the title is amended as follows:
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31 providing a formula for the distribution of
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Bill No. HB 1747, 2nd Eng.
Amendment No. 1
1 greyhound purses; requiring greyhound
2 permitholders to produce weekly purse payment
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