Bill Text: NY A10528 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Alters the distribution of proceeds from the state lottery to provide for the distribution of 2 1/2 per cent of amounts realized therefrom to cities, towns and villages based upon total lottery sales, in an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount for which lottery tickets are sold during the fiscal year as the population of such cities, towns or villages bears to the population of the state, excluding however the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-02 - referred to ways and means [A10528 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A10528-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10528
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2010
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       Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO, CALHOUN -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN  ACT  to amend the state finance law, in relation to the distribution
         of moneys realized from the state lottery
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 4 of section 92-c of the state finance law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
    3    E.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF  THIS  SECTION,  ANY
    4  MONEYS  PAID IN SUPPORT OF ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY EDUCATION PURSUANT TO
    5  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO ANY MONEYS OTHER-
    6  WISE APPROPRIATED BY THE STATE FOR SUCH PURPOSES.  ANY STATE AID  OTHER-
    7  WISE  REQUIRED  OR  MADE  AVAILABLE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE STATE
    8  SHALL BE CALCULATED AS IF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION AND THE  REVEN-
    9  UES MADE AVAILABLE BY THIS SECTION ARE NOT IN FORCE AND EFFECT.
   10    S  2.    Subdivision  7  of  section 92-c of the state finance law, as
   11  amended by chapter 92 of the laws of 1976 and as renumbered  by  chapter
   12  913 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   13    7.  A. In no fiscal year shall the total amount paid from the fund for
   14  expenses of the lottery, exclusive of expenditures for machines or other
   15  capital equipment which the division of the  lottery  is  authorized  to
   16  purchase  for the operation of the lottery, exceed an amount which, when
   17  added to any amount retained by lottery sales agents as compensation for
   18  their services, equals [fifteen] TWELVE  AND  ONE-HALF  percent  of  the
   19  total amount for which lottery tickets are sold during such fiscal year.
   20    B.  AN  AMOUNT  EQUAL TO TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT OF ALL LOTTERY FUNDS
   21  SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES WITH  POPULATIONS
   22  LESS  THAN  ONE MILLION, IN AN AMOUNT WHICH BEARS THE SAME PROPORTION TO
   23  THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR WHICH LOTTERY TICKETS ARE SOLD  DURING  THE  FISCAL
   24  YEAR  AS THE POPULATION OF SUCH CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE BEARS TO THE POPU-
   25  LATION OF THE STATE, EXCLUDING HOWEVER THE POPULATION OF THE CITY OF NEW
   26  YORK.
   27    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
   28  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15924-01-0
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