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