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FLORIDA RAGING LEGISLATION TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 15.— The house committee on Public Amusements today will report a substitute racing bill which will prevent horse or dog tracks having concurrent dates, will require race dates to be alternated or rotated among tracks of a county from year to year, and will make other lesser changes in the racing law. The committee substitute announced by Representative R. K. Lewis of Palm Beach, will supplant a bill introduced by Representative S. P. Robineau, Dade County, which simply extended the racing days from April 1 to April 15. By the terms of the committee, substitute for the Robineau Bill, Trcpical Park and Hialeah Park in Dade County, cannot run at the same time, nor can either have a split season. If Hialeah Park, next winter, gets the first part of the season and Tropical Park the last half, they must alternate in the following year. The three Dade County dog tracks by the amended bill would rotate, only one operating at a time. The dog racing season would be extended from December 1 to April 30. Another provision would require every track to employ at least seventy-five per cent of its personnel, exclusive of jockeys, exercise boys, trainers, dockers and officials of the track from residents of Florida.
