Bill Text: NY S01631 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes licensed authorized organizations to conduct certain poker tournaments as licensed games of chance fundraisers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-04 - referred to racing and wagering [S01631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01631-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1631--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. BONACIC, O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Racing,  Gaming
          and  Wagering  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and
          Wagering in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported  favora-
          bly  from  said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to poker tourna-
          ments
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.    Section 185 of the general municipal law, as amended by
     2  chapter 574 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 185. Short title; purpose of article. This article  shall  be  known
     4  and  may  be cited as the games of chance licensing law. The legislature
     5  hereby declares that the raising of funds for the promotion of bona fide
     6  charitable, educational, scientific,  health,  religious  and  patriotic
     7  causes and undertakings, where the beneficiaries are undetermined, is in
     8  the  public  interest.  It  hereby finds that, as conducted prior to the
     9  enactment of this article, games of chance were the subject of exploita-
    10  tion by professional gamblers, promoters, and commercial interests,  and
    11  it  finds  further  that  tournaments  of  the various games of poker as
    12  offered by authorized  organizations  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of
    13  section  nine of article I of the New York state constitution, should be
    14  regulated under this article. It is hereby declared to be the policy  of
    15  the  legislature that all phases of the supervision, licensing and regu-
    16  lation of games of chance and of the conduct of games of chance,  should
    17  be closely controlled and that the laws and regulations pertaining ther-
    18  eto  should be strictly construed and rigidly enforced; that the conduct
    19  of the game and all attendant activities  should  be  so  regulated  and
    20  adequate  controls  so  instituted as to discourage commercialization of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03321-02-6
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