Bill Text: NY A04791 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to racing and wagering [A04791 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04791-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4791 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Racing and Wagering 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 24 receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to 25 chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04652-02-1A. 4791 2 1 of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to 2 the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made avail- 3 able to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in 4 such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive 5 fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and provided 6 further that the state shall annually make twenty-five percent of the 7 negotiated percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices the state 8 actually receives pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement confirmed 9 by section eleven of the executive law as available to the county of 10 Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop 11 from all gaming devices located within the county of Madison for which 12 the state actually receives payment and a sum of three and one-half 13 million dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall 14 distribute for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional 15 annual sum of two and one-half million dollars to the county of Oneida. 16 Additionally, the state shall distribute the one-time eleven million 17 dollar payment received by the state pursuant to such agreement with the 18 Oneida Nation of New York to the county of Madison by wire transfer upon 19 receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) support and services of 20 treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. 21 Moneys not segregated for such purposes shall be transferred to the 22 general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in 23 which they are received. 24 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as 25 amended by section 8 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to 26 read as follows: 27 3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations 28 enacted by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including 29 but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal govern- 30 ments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for 31 costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or 32 arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and 33 job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev- 34 er, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or 35 Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collec- 36 tively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated 37 percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state 38 receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any 39 gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chau- 40 tauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the 41 facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of 42 the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices 43 the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that 44 pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand 45 four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the 46 state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe 47 shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, 48 and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected 49 towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the 50 state; and provided further that the state shall annually make twenty- 51 five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from all 52 gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant to the Oneida 53 Settlement Agreement confirmed by section eleven of the executive law 54 available to the county of Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated 55 percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices located within the 56 county of Madison for which the state actually receives payment and aA. 4791 3 1 sum of three and one-half million dollars to the county of Madison. 2 Additionally, the state shall distribute, for a period of nineteen and 3 one-quarter years, an additional annual sum of two and one-half million 4 dollars to the county of Oneida. Additionally, the state shall distrib- 5 ute the one-time eleven million dollar payment actually received by the 6 state pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement to the county of Madi- 7 son by wire transfer upon receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) 8 support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from 9 gambling addictions. Moneys not segregated for such purposes shall be 10 transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the 11 fiscal year in which they are received. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed in 13 full force and effect on the date the state actually receives payment 14 from gaming devices located in Madison county, provided that the amend- 15 ments to subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law made by 16 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion 17 of such section as provided in section 2 of chapter 747 of the laws of 18 2006, as amended when upon such date the provisions of section two of 19 this act shall take effect.