RACING/HORSE: Provides for payment of horse racing purses
This bill modifies the rules for distributing prize money in horse races to ensure that the first, second, and third place winners receive their purses directly from the race meeting organizers. The key change requires these payments to be made to the breeders of the winning horses rather than to the owners or trainers. This adjustment affects the financial arrangements for horse racing events by clarifying who receives the prize money at the end of a race meeting.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 23, 2024
Signed Jun 11, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2024 · House Apr 30, 2024
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 28, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Yea
R
Republican25
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 28, 2024
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 22, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 21, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 30, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (13-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Feb 23, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chad Boyer
RRepublican
Co
Alonzo Knox
DDemocratic
Co
Brach Myers
RRepublican
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Jeremy LaCombe
RRepublican
Co
Joe Stagni
RRepublican
Co
John Wyble
RRepublican
Co
Joy Walters
DDemocratic
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
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