Bill Text: NY S01446 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits individuals under the age of twenty-one from gambling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S01446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01446-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1446

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
          ing

        AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law and
          the tax law, in relation to prohibiting individuals under the  age  of
          twenty-one from gambling

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 108  of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
     2  wagering and breeding law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 60
     3  of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  No corporation, association or person that holds a license, regis-
     5  tration, franchise, certificate or permit issued by the commission shall
     6  permit any person who is actually or apparently under  [eighteen]  twen-
     7  ty-one years of age to bet on gaming activity, as defined in subdivision
     8  five of section one hundred one of this article.
     9    §  2.  The opening paragraph of subdivision b of section 1617-a of the
    10  tax law, as amended by section 1 of part SS of chapter 60 of the laws of
    11  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    12    Such rules and regulations shall provide, as a condition of licensure,
    13  that racetracks to be licensed are certified to be  in  compliance  with
    14  all state and local fire and safety codes, that no person who is actual-
    15  ly  and  apparently  under twenty-one years of age shall be permitted to
    16  participate in video lottery  gaming,  that  the  gaming  commission  is
    17  afforded  adequate  space, infrastructure, and amenities consistent with
    18  industry standards for such video lottery gaming operations as found  at
    19  racetracks  in  other  states,  that racetrack employees involved in the
    20  operation of video lottery gaming pursuant to this section are  licensed
    21  by  the  gaming commission and such other terms and conditions of licen-
    22  sure as the gaming commission may establish.  Notwithstanding any incon-
    23  sistent provision of law, video lottery gaming at a  racetrack  pursuant

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05577-01-1

        S. 1446                             2

     1  to  this section shall be deemed an approved activity for such racetrack
     2  under the relevant city, county, town, or village  land  use  or  zoning
     3  ordinances,  rules,  or  regulations.  No  entity licensed by the gaming
     4  commission  operating  video lottery gaming pursuant to this section may
     5  house such gaming activity in a structure  deemed  or  approved  by  the
     6  division  as "temporary" for a duration of longer than [eighteen-months]
     7  eighteen months.   Nothing in this section  shall  prohibit  the  gaming
     8  commission  from  licensing an entity to operate video lottery gaming at
     9  an existing racetrack as authorized in this subdivision whether or not a
    10  different entity is licensed to conduct  horse  racing  and  pari-mutuel
    11  wagering  at  such  racetrack  pursuant  to  article two or three of the
    12  racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law.
    13    § 3.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.
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