Bill Text: NY A01752 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides for the sharing of thirty percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Oneida; provides for the sharing of twenty-five percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-04 - print number 1752a [A01752 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01752-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SALKA
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Racing and  Wagering  --
          recommitted to the Committee on Racing and Wagering in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 counties of Oneida  and
          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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04652-05-2

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

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     1  five]  thirty  percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from
     2  all gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant  to  the  Oneida
     3  Settlement  Agreement  confirmed  by section eleven of the executive law
     4  available  to  the  county  of  Oneida, thirty percent of the negotiated
     5  percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices  located  within  the
     6  county  of Oneida for which the state actually receives payment, twenty-
     7  five percent of the negotiated percentage  of  the  net  drop  from  all
     8  gaming  devices located within the county of Madison for which the state
     9  actually receives payment and  a  sum  of  three  and  one-half  million
    10  dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall distrib-
    11  ute, for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional annu-
    12  al  sum  of  two  and  one-half million dollars to the county of Oneida.
    13  Additionally, the state shall distribute  the  one-time  eleven  million
    14  dollar  payment  actually  received  by the state pursuant to the Oneida
    15  Settlement Agreement to the county of  Madison  by  wire  transfer  upon
    16  receipt  of  such  payment by the state; and (b) support and services of
    17  treatment programs  for  persons  suffering  from  gambling  addictions.
    18  Moneys  not  segregated  for  such  purposes shall be transferred to the
    19  general fund for the support of government during  the  fiscal  year  in
    20  which they are received.
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect June 1, 2022 and shall be deemed in
    22  full force and effect on the date the state  actually  receives  payment
    23  from  gaming  devices  located  in  Oneida  county  and  Madison county,
    24  provided that the amendments to subdivision 3 of  section  99-h  of  the
    25  state  finance  law  made by section one of this act shall be subject to
    26  the expiration and reversion of such section as provided in section 2 of
    27  chapter 747 of the laws of 2006, as amended  when  upon  such  date  the
    28  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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