Bill Text: NY A00362 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Returns the funding levels for municipalities in which video lottery gaming facilities are located to the state fiscal year 2008-2009 levels.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to ways and means [A00362 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00362-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          362
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to returning the  aid
         to  localities  payments  for  eligible  municipalities in which video
         lottery gaming facilities are located to the  2008-2009  state  fiscal
         year levels; and to amend chapter 53 of the laws of 2013, enacting the
         Aid  to  Localities budget, in relation to payments of aid to eligible
         municipalities in which video lottery gaming facilities are located
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 54-l of the state
    2  finance law, as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 55 of  the  laws
    3  of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
    4    b.  Within  the amounts appropriated therefor, eligible municipalities
    5  shall receive an amount equal to [seventy  percent  of]  the  state  aid
    6  payment  received  in  the state fiscal year commencing April first, two
    7  thousand eight from an appropriation  for  aid  to  municipalities  with
    8  video lottery gaming facilities.
    9    S  2.  That part, entitled "Miscellaneous -- All state departments and
   10  agencies -- Local Government Assistance", of section 1 of chapter 53  of
   11  the  laws  of  2013  entitled  "Aid to Localities budget", is amended by
   12  adding thereto the items hereinbelow set forth in italics and is amended
   13  by deleting therefrom the items hereinbelow set  forth  in  brackets  as
   14  follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00016-01-5
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    1             MISCELLANEOUS -- ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
    2                         LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
    3                          AID TO LOCALITIES 2013-14
    4  For payment according to the following schedule:
    5                                          APPROPRIATIONS  REAPPROPRIATIONS
    6    General Fund .......................   [826,336,217]        87,073,000
    7                                            832,591,954
    8    Fiduciary Funds ....................     30,000,000                  0
    9                                        ----------------  ----------------
   10      All Funds ........................   [856,336,217]        87,073,000
   11                                            862,591,954
   12                                        ================  ================
   13  AID TO MUNICIPALITIES WITH VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING FACILITIES
   14    ........................................... [27,245,917]    33,501,654
   15                                              --------------
   16    General Fund
   17    Local Assistance Account
   18  For payment of aid to the city of Yonkers as
   19    an  eligible city in which a video lottery
   20    gaming facility  is  located  pursuant  to
   21    section 54-l of the state finance law. The
   22    amount appropriated herein shall be avail-
   23    able  for  payment to the city pursuant to
   24    section 54-l of the state finance  law  no
   25    earlier  than  April  1, 2014 and no later
   26    than June 30, 2014 on audit and warrant of
   27    the state comptroller notwithstanding  any
   28    provision of law to the contrary including
   29    any  contrary  provision  of section 40 or
   30    section 54-l of the state finance law.
   31  Such  payment  shall   constitute   complete
   32    liquidation  of  the state's obligation to
   33    the city under section 54-l of  the  state
   34    finance  law  for  the  state  fiscal year
   35    commencing on April 1, 2014 ... 19,600,000
   36  For  payment  of  aid  to  eligible  munici-
   37    palities  in  which a video lottery gaming
   38    facility is located  pursuant  to  section
   39    54-l  of  the  state finance law. Notwith-
   40    standing  any  provision  of  law  to  the
   41    contrary,    such   municipalities   shall
   42    receive aid  in  an  amount  equal  to  55
   43    percent  of  the  aid  which  such munici-
   44    palities received  [in  the  state  fiscal
   45    year]  commencing  [April 1, 2008] JANUARY
   46    1, 2013 pursuant to section  54-l  of  the
   47    state finance law ............ [7,645,917]    13,901,654
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    2    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    3  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2013.