Bill Text: NY A01738 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "emergency school relief act"; makes changes in the percentages for disposition of revenue from lottery prize account to increase the percentage, by thirty percent, directed to state aid for education funding.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to ways and means [A01738 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01738-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1738

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced   by   M.  of  A.  SANTABARBARA,  THIELE,  McDONOUGH,  STERN,
          SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, JONES, GALEF, MANKTELOW -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.
          of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways
          and Means

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "emergency
          school relief act of 2021"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "emergency
     2  school relief act of 2021".
     3    §  2.  Paragraphs  3 and 4 of subdivision a of section 1612 of the tax
     4  law, as amended by chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, are amended to  read
     5  as follows:
     6    (3)  [fifty-five]  forty percent of the total amount for which tickets
     7  have been sold  for  any  joint,  multi-jurisdiction,  and  out-of-state
     8  lottery  except  as otherwise provided in paragraph one of subdivision b
     9  of this section for any joint,  multi-jurisdiction,  out-of-state  video
    10  lottery gaming; or
    11    (4)  [fifty] thirty-five percent of the total amount for which tickets
    12  have been sold for games known as: (A) the "Daily Numbers Game" or  "Win
    13  4",  discrete  games in which the participants select no more than three
    14  or four of their own numbers to match with three or four  numbers  drawn
    15  by  the  division for purposes of determining winners of such games, (B)
    16  "Pick 10", offered no more than once daily, in which participants select
    17  from a specified field of numbers a  subset  of  ten  numbers  to  match
    18  against  a subset of numbers to be drawn by the division from such field
    19  of numbers for the purpose of determining  winners  of  such  game,  (C)
    20  "Take  5", offered no more than once daily, in which participants select
    21  from a specified field of numbers a subset  of  five  numbers  to  match
    22  against  a  subset of five numbers to be drawn by the division from such
    23  field of numbers for purposes of determining winners of such game; or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04561-01-1
        A. 1738                             2

     1    § 3. The opening paragraph of paragraph 1 of subdivision b of  section
     2  1612  of the tax law, as amended by section 2 of subpart D of part DD of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    Notwithstanding  section  one  hundred twenty-one of the state finance
     5  law, on or before the twentieth day of each month, the commission  shall
     6  pay  into  the  state  treasury, to the credit of the state lottery fund
     7  created by section ninety-two-c of the state finance law, not less  than
     8  forty-five  percent of the total amount for which tickets have been sold
     9  for games defined in paragraph five of subdivision  a  of  this  section
    10  during  the preceding month, not less than [forty-five] sixty percent of
    11  the total amount for which tickets have [be] been sold for games defined
    12  in paragraph four of subdivision a of this section during the  preceding
    13  month, not less than [thirty-five] fifty percent of the total amount for
    14  which  tickets  have  been  sold for games defined in paragraph three of
    15  subdivision a of this section during the preceding month, not less  than
    16  twenty  and  three-fourths percent of the total amount for which tickets
    17  have been sold for games defined in paragraph two of  subdivision  a  of
    18  this section during the preceding month, provided however that for games
    19  with  a prize payout of seventy-four and one-fourth percent of the total
    20  amount for which tickets have been sold, the commission  shall  pay  not
    21  less than ten and three-fourths percent of sales into the state treasury
    22  and  not  less  than  twenty-five  percent of the total amount for which
    23  tickets have been sold for games defined in paragraph one of subdivision
    24  a of this section during the preceding month; and  the  balance  of  the
    25  total  revenue after payout for prizes for games known as "video lottery
    26  gaming," including any joint, multi-jurisdiction, and out-of-state video
    27  lottery gaming,
    28    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.