The New York Gaming Commission has prepared a report outlining the options the regulatory agency can consider if the commission believes that the state should adopt restrictions on the use of the whip in races, the commission’s chairman said at a meeting on Tuesday. The report was requested by the commission at a meeting in late November, following a two-hour hearing to discuss potential rule changes. Many racing commissions across the U.S. have put in place new whip rules limiting their use in races, in consideration of concerns over animal welfare in the sport. Barry Sample, the NYGC chairman, said that the report had been completed “within the last 24 hours” of the commission meeting on Tuesday afternoon. “Staff will be spending time with that report, and commissioners will be spending time with that report, and we hope to address that at our next meeting,” Sample said. The commission’s next meeting has not yet been scheduled. Also at the meeting, the NYGC approved a rule that would allow the commission to create a new licensing category for “supervised veterinary technicians.” A statement the commission prepared in support of the new category says that it would “make it more feasible for horsepersons and racetrack operators to provide appropriate veterinary services … by permitting the use of less expensive, appropriately supervised veterinarian technicians.”