REFERENCE TITLE: amusements; 2023-2024.

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

SB 1524

Introduced by

Senators Kavanagh: Hoffman

An Act

providing for the department of gaming regulatory assessment pari-mutuel pool; relating to amusements.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Department of gaming regulatory assessment; pari-mutuel pool

Notwithstanding any other law, in fiscal year 2023-2024, the department of gaming shall establish and collect a regulatory assessment from each commercial racing permittee, payable from amounts deducted from pari-mutuel pools by the permittee, in addition to the amounts the permittee is authorized to deduct pursuant to section 5-111, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, from amounts wagered on live and simulcast races from in-state and out-of-state wagering handled by the permittee, in the amount of 0.5 percent of the amounts wagered.