Bill Text: NY S05625 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides for the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to racing and wagering [S05625 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05625-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5625--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to the sharing of
          revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as
     2  amended  by  section 7 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of  appropriations
     5  enacted  by  the  legislature, shall be available for purposes including
     6  but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal  govern-
     7  ments  that  host  tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for
     8  costs incurred in connection with services provided to such  casinos  or
     9  arising  as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and
    10  job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev-
    11  er, that for any gaming facility located in the  city  of  Buffalo,  the
    12  city  of  Buffalo  shall receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the
    13  negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the
    14  state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided  further  that  for
    15  any  gaming  facility  located  in  the city of Niagara Falls, county of
    16  Niagara a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of
    17  the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives  pursuant
    18  to  the compact shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision four
    19  of this section, and provided  further  that  for  any  gaming  facility
    20  located  in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allega-
    21  ny, the municipal governments of the state hosting  the  facility  shall
    22  collectively  receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated
    23  percentage of the net drop from  electronic  gaming  devices  the  state

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11583-02-9

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     1  receives  pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to
     2  chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a  minimum
     3  of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to
     4  the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made avail-
     5  able to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in
     6  such  counties.  Each  such  county and its affected towns shall receive
     7  fifty percent of the moneys made available by the  state;  and  provided
     8  further  that  the  state shall annually make twenty-five percent of the
     9  negotiated percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices the  state
    10  actually  receives pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement confirmed
    11  by section eleven of the executive law as available  to  the  county  of
    12  Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop
    13  from  all  gaming devices located within the county of Madison for which
    14  the state actually receives payment and a  sum  of  three  and  one-half
    15  million  dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall
    16  distribute for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional
    17  annual sum of two and one-half million dollars to the county of  Oneida.
    18  Additionally,  the  state  shall  distribute the one-time eleven million
    19  dollar payment received by the state pursuant to such agreement with the
    20  Oneida Nation of New York to the county of Madison by wire transfer upon
    21  receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) support  and  services  of
    22  treatment  programs  for  persons  suffering  from  gambling addictions.
    23  Moneys not segregated for such purposes  shall  be  transferred  to  the
    24  general  fund  for  the  support of government during the fiscal year in
    25  which they are received.
    26    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section  99-h  of  the  state  finance  law,  as
    27  amended  by  section 8 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
    28  read as follows:
    29    3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of  appropriations
    30  enacted  by  the  legislature, shall be available for purposes including
    31  but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal  govern-
    32  ments  that  host  tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for
    33  costs incurred in connection with services provided to such  casinos  or
    34  arising  as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and
    35  job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev-
    36  er, that for any gaming facility  located  in  the  county  of  Erie  or
    37  Niagara,  the  municipal  governments hosting the facility shall collec-
    38  tively receive a  minimum  of  twenty-five  percent  of  the  negotiated
    39  percentage  of  the  net  drop  from electronic gaming devices the state
    40  receives pursuant to the compact  and  provided  further  that  for  any
    41  gaming  facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chau-
    42  tauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state  hosting  the
    43  facility  shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of
    44  the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices
    45  the state receives pursuant to the compact; and  provided  further  that
    46  pursuant  to  chapter  five  hundred  ninety of the laws of two thousand
    47  four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received  by  the
    48  state  pursuant  to  the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe
    49  shall be made available to the counties of Franklin  and  St.  Lawrence,
    50  and  affected  towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected
    51  towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made  available  by  the
    52  state;  and  provided further that the state shall annually make twenty-
    53  five percent of the negotiated percentage  of  the  net  drop  from  all
    54  gaming  devices  the  state  actually  receives  pursuant  to the Oneida
    55  Settlement Agreement confirmed by section eleven of  the  executive  law
    56  available to the county of Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated

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     1  percentage  of  the  net drop from all gaming devices located within the
     2  county of Madison for which the state actually receives  payment  and  a
     3  sum  of  three  and  one-half  million dollars to the county of Madison.
     4  Additionally,  the  state shall distribute, for a period of nineteen and
     5  one-quarter years, an additional annual sum of two and one-half  million
     6  dollars  to the county of Oneida. Additionally, the state shall distrib-
     7  ute the one-time eleven million dollar payment actually received by  the
     8  state pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement to the county of Madi-
     9  son  by wire transfer upon receipt of such payment by the state; and (b)
    10  support and services of treatment programs for  persons  suffering  from
    11  gambling  addictions.   Moneys not segregated for such purposes shall be
    12  transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the
    13  fiscal year in which they are received.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect June 1, 2020 and shall  be  deemed  in
    15  full  force  and  effect on the date the state actually receives payment
    16  from gaming devices located in Madison county, provided that the  amend-
    17  ments  to subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law made by
    18  section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion
    19  of such section as provided in section 2 of chapter 747 of the  laws  of
    20  2006,  as  amended  when upon such date the provisions of section two of
    21  this act shall take effect.
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