Bill Text: NY A03276 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools; authorizes such school district in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to receive payments to increase support for public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A03276 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03276-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3276

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing the
          Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to
          video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public
          schools

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 and paragraph b of subdivision
     2  3  of  section  54-l  of the state finance law, as added by section 1 of
     3  part J of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2011,  are  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    b.  "Eligible municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village
     6  in which a video lottery gaming facility is located pursuant to  section
     7  sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law that is not located in a city
     8  with a population equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-five thou-
     9  sand.  Beginning April first, two thousand twenty-three, "eligible muni-
    10  cipality" shall also include the Hamburg Central School District in  the
    11  town of Hamburg, county of Erie.
    12    b.  State  aid  payments  made to an eligible municipality pursuant to
    13  paragraph b of subdivision two of this section shall  be  used  by  such
    14  eligible municipality to: (i) defray local costs associated with a video
    15  lottery gaming facility, or (ii) minimize or reduce real property taxes,
    16  or  (iii)  for  an  eligible  municipality  that  is  a school district,
    17  increase support for public schools in such district.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06965-01-3