Authorizes the city of Yonkers to establish a separate fund into which revenue earmarked for the safe city streets, safe streets, safe schools program will be deposited.
Excludes the use of equine pulsed electromagnetic field therapy from the practice of veterinary medicine.
Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child; increases age from 16 to 18 for application of existing sexual performance crimes; creates crimes of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree, and promoting a sexual performance by a child in the first degree; provides for consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions.
Specifies who can operate a handicapping tournament; requires handicapping tournament operators to distribute no less than eighty percent of entry fees as prizes to the winners of a handicapping tournament; requires that five percent of the portion of the gross revenue collected by an operator on handicapping tournament entry fees from New York participants that is not distributed as prizes to the winners of a tournament be distributed quarterly by such operator to the horsemen's organization for welfare and medical plans for regularly employed backstretch employees.
Provides for the licensing and regulation of the profession of reflexology which is a protocol that is applied to specific reflex areas to stimulate the neural pathways linking body systems.
Requires unanimous agreement between management, the gaming commission and the horsemen's association representative before race days can be cancelled, as well as language requiring cancelled race days to be made up.
Provides the same adjustment for capital apportionment to high need school districts bordering the city of New York as used by school districts of the city of New York.
Includes within the provisions of the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the reckless causation of serious physical injury to a child under seven years of age, by a person eighteen years of age or older; provides that "serious physical injury", for the purposes of the penal law, shall include, in the case of a child under 7 years of age, subdural hemorrhage, intercranial hemorrhage and retinal hemorrhages.
Permits the electronic filing of papers in local criminal courts in certain instances.
Mandates a fixed percentage of annual harness horse breeders awards; requires that all sire stakes funds generated by a specific racetrack be returned as purses to such track at the same level in order to allow New York to compete with states that have stronger awards programs.
