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Committee retains bill requiring historic horse‑racing operators to pay host communities 10% mitigation
Summary
Representative John Olm proposed that historic horse‑racing facilities be required to provide 10% of ATHR winnings to host communities; the House Ways and Means Committee retained HB 660 19–0 for further work.
Representative John Olm introduced House Bill 660 during the Ways and Means Committee public hearing, proposing an amendment that would require historic horse‑racing (HHR) facilities to compensate their host communities with 10% of the ATHR winnings. “I’m here to introduce house bill 6 6 0, with an amendment requiring historic racing facilities to compensate their host communities with 10% of the ATHR winnings,” Olm said.
Olm told the committee the measure responds to the expansion of historic horse‑racing into large properties without the local “opt‑in” referendums that accompanied earlier gaming expansions. He said the amendment would make municipalities “whole” for incremental costs associated with hosting HHR enterprises while preserving payments to charities and the state by taking the 10% mitigation from the operators’ share.
Committee members asked several questions.…
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