Bill Text: NY A05056 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows charitable organizations to accept credit cards as a form of payment for games of chance.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 19-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05056 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05056-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5056
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, FINCH, LAVINE, RA, HAWLEY, GIGLIO, DiPIETRO
          --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH,
          MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Racing  and
          Wagering
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing char-
          itable  organizations  to  accept credit cards as payment for games of
          chance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  189  of  the general municipal law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
     3    12-a. Notwithstanding subdivision twelve of this section,  an  author-
     4  ized  organization  may  accept  a  credit card as a form of payment for
     5  participation in a game of chance.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07888-01-9
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