An Act To Implement the Recommendations Regarding the Legislative Review of the Allocation of Slot Machine Revenue
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 0393
Committee Amendment CA_A_H482 (House)
Amends: 7 MRSA §82, 8 MRSA §263-A, 8 MRSA §1037

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 319, L.D. 393, Bill, "An Act To 
Implement the Recommendations Regarding the Legislative Review of the Allocation of 
Slot Machine Revenue" 
Amend the bill by inserting after the enacting clause and before section 1 the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §82, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 563, §3, is amended to 
read: 
5. Rulemaking. The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish procedures for 
licensing and awarding dates for agricultural fairs and performance standards for 
evaluating agricultural fairs. The commissioner, in consultation with the executive 
director of the State Harness Racing Commission, shall adopt rules that require 
agricultural fairs that receive a distribution of slot machine revenue in accordance with 
Title 8, section 1036, subsection 2 to submit information regarding the use of that revenue 
sufficient for the executive director to submit the report required by Title 8, section 1037. 
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, 
chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §82, sub-§6 is enacted to read: 
6. Report on revenues from the operation of slot machines. The commissioner 
shall coordinate with the executive director of the State Harness Racing Commission to 
submit a report regarding the distribution of slot machine revenues as required by Title 8, 
section 1037. 
Sec. 3. 8 MRSA §263-A, sub-§l, ~C, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 528, §6, is 
amended to read: 
C. 
The licensing of individuals participating in harness racing and off-track betting 
facilities, including rules requiring applicants to submit information sufficient for the 
report required to be submitted by the executive director of the commission as 
required by section 1037;' 
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Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 3. 8 MRSA §1037 is enacted to read: 
§1037. Annual report on use of funds 
Beginning February 15, 2012, the executive director of the State Harness Racing 
Commission, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Resources, annually shall submit a report to the joint standing committees of the 
Legislature having jurisdiction over slot machines, harness racing, agricultural fairs and 
appropriations and financial affairs regarding the use of slot machine revenue deposited 
in funds under section 1036, subsection 2, paragraphs B, C, D, H and I. The executive 
director and the commissioner shall obtain the information as described in this section. 
The report required by this section must be completed using budgeted resources. The 
executive director may not distribute funds listed under section 1036, subsection 2, as 
applicable, to harness racing tracks, off-track betting facilities, agricultural fairs or the 
Sire Stakes Fund under section 281 until the information required to submit the report 
required by this section is provided. 
1. Commercial tracks. A report required by this section must include the following 
information from commercial tracks licensed in accordance with chapter 11 that receive a 
distribution of slot machine revenue under section 1036, subsection 2, paragraph B, D or 
H: 
A. The total amount wagered on live harness races; 
B. The total amount wagered on intrastate simulcast races; 
C. The total amount wagered on interstate simulcast races; 
D. 
The number of harness races originated in the State and made available for 
simulcast outside of the State; 
E. The amount of the harness racing handle from wagers at the commercial track 
kept by that commercial track and the distribution of the handle to the State and 
industry recipients under section 286; 
F. The amount received from the handle distribution from wagers at other tracks and 
off-track betting facilities under section 286; 
G. The amount of revenue received in accordance with section 1036, subsection 2, 
paragraphs B, D and H; 
H. The number of full-time and part-time employees at the commercial track; 
I. The amount, if any, spent on capital improvements to the commercial track and 
related facilities and a description of those improvements. The first report must 
include the amount spent since November 2005, shown by year. Subsequent annual 
reports must include the amount spent on capital improvements the immediately 
preceding calendar year; 
J. Operating costs for the commercial track; 
K. Profit and loss or depreciation figures for the commercial track; and 
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L. Administrative costs to comply with reporting requirements and contributions to 
the State Harness Racing Commission's operating account described in section 
267-A. 
2. Agricultural fair that conducts harness racing. The report required by this 
section must include the following with regard to the use of slot machine revenue 
distributed to an agricultural fair that is licensed under chapter 11 to conduct harness 
racmg: 
A. An estimate of the number of people that attended the agricultural fair, including 
separate estimates of paid attendance, free-pass attendance, vendor attendance and 
attendance under a local campground pass; 
B. The total amount wagered on harness races at the agricultural fair; 
C. The number of harness races originated at the agricultural fair and made available 
for simulcast outside of the State; 
D. The amount of the harness racing handle received by the agricultural fair under 
section 286; 
E. The amounts, reported separately, of revenue received in accordance with section 
1036, subsection 2, paragraphs Band D, the Stipend Fund under Title 7, section 86 
and from any other source in accordance with rules adopted under section 263-A, 
subsection 1, paragraph C and Title 7, section 82, subsection 5 by the Commissioner 
of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources or the State Harness Racing Commission; 
and 
F. The amount of revenue received to supplement harness racing purses, pay fair 
premiums, make capital improvements to fairground facilities, racing venues or 
grandstand operations and labor costs and operating expenses. 
3. Agricultural fair that does not conduct harness racing. The report required by 
this section must include the following with regard to an agricultural fair: 
A. The amount spent to pay fair premiums make capital improvements to fairground 
facilities and labor costs and operating expenses; 
B. 
The amounts, reported separately, received from slot machine revenue in 
accordance with section 1036, subsection 2, paragraph D, the Stipend Fund under 
Title 7, section 86 and from any other source in accordance with rules adopted under 
section 263-A, subsection 1, paragraph C and Title 7, section 82, subsection 5 by the 
Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources or the State Harness Racing 
Commission; and 
C. An estimate of the number of people that attended the agricultural fair, including 
separate estimates of paid attendance, free-pass attendance, vendor attendance and 
attendance under a local campground pass. 
4. Breeders and owners within the Maine Standardbred program. A report 
required by this section must include the following information from horse breeders and 
owners within the Maine Standardbred program established pursuant to section 281 who 
receive a distribution under section 1036, subsection 2, paragraph C: 
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A. The number of mares bred by each Maine Standardbred stallion as reported to the 
State Harness Racing Commission; 
B. An assessment of whether the number of Maine Standardbred horses in the State 
is sufficient to grow and sustain harness racing in the State; 
C. The number of yearling horses eligible and nominated to participate in sire stakes 
racmg; 
D. The amount received from slot machine revenue in accordance with section 1036, 
subsection 2, paragraph C; 
E. The total number of qualifying dashes for sire stakes races and the average purse 
for each dash sorted by the age of the horse and the average purse for each sire stakes 
final dash sorted by the age of the horse; and 
F. An accounting of the Sire Stakes Fund, including the total amount of the fund at 
the beginning and end of the racing season and, reported separately, expenditures 
used to supplement purses, pay breeder promotional contracts, pay advertising costs, 
make payments to a statewide horsemen association, pay administrative costs and 
make contributions to the operating account described in section 267 -A. 
S. Off-track betting facilin" The report required by this section must include, with 
regard to a facility licensed to conduct off-track betting on harness racing: 
A. The number of individual wagers placed on intrastate and interstate simulcast 
races and the total amount for each; 
B. The number of full-time and part-time employees of the off-track betting facility; 
C. The operating costs for the off-track betting facility; 
D. The name and primary location of the company licensed to operate the off-track 
betting facility; 
E. 
The total number of races originating in the State received for simulcast as 
reported by the off-track betting facility; 
F. The amount, if any, spent on capital improvements to the off-track betting facility 
and a description of those improvements. The first report must include the amount 
spent since November 2005, shown by year. Subsequent annual reports must include 
the amount spent on capital improvements the immediately preceding calendar year; 
G. The amount of the harness racing handle kept by the off-track betting facility and 
the distribution ofthe handle to the State and industry recipients under section 286; 
H. The amount received from the handle distribution from wagers at tracks and other 
off-track betting facilities under section 286; and 
I. The amount of revenue received in accordance with section 1036, subsection 2, 
paragraph I. 
6. 
Other recipients. 
The Fund for a Healthy Maine's program providing 
prescription drugs for adults who are elderly or disabled, the University of Maine System 
and the Maine Community College System shall submit reports that include the amount 
of slot machine revenue received under section 1036, subsection 2 and how that revenue 
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was used to meet the statutory requirements cited ill section 1036, subsection 2, 
paragraphs E, F and G, respectively.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
, This amendment transfers the responsibility of reporting to the joint standing 
committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over slot machines, harness racing, 
agricultural fairs and appropriations and financial affairs on the use of slot machine 
revenues by commercial tracks, agricultural fairs, off-track betting facilities and 
standardbred horse breeders from the entities themselves to the executive director of the 
State Harness Racing Commission, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Food and Rural Resources. 
The reporting requirements for other recipients of slot 
machine revenue under the bill are not changed. 
The amendment requires the 
commissioner, in consultation with the State Harness Racing Commission, to adopt rules 
to ensure the reporting requirements are met. The amendment strikes some of the more 
detailed reporting requirements, including the number of people attending harness races 
at commercial tracks, detailed payroll information and the number of races originating in 
the State for simulcasting outside of the State. The amendment makes changes to the 
information required of horsebreeders in the Maine Standardbred program by clarifying 
how to quantify the number of Maine Standardbred horses and how to report money from 
the Sire Stakes Fund. It removes the requirement that the number of breeders and the 
breeders' geographic locations be reported. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/27111 
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LD393 
LR 446(02) 
An Act To Implement the Recommendations Regarding the Legislative Review of the Allocation of 
Slot Machine Revenue 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '~" 
Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Additional costs to the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System and the Department of 
Health and Human Services to submit the required reports can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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