Bill Text: NY A05254 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the creation of the veteran assistance lottery game; provides for deposit of the proceeds of such game in the veterans' tuition awards account.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-20 - held for consideration in racing and wagering [A05254 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05254-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5254
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 21, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Racing and Wagering
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing the creation of
the veteran assistance lottery game
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 1621 to read
2 as follows:
3 S 1621. VETERAN ASSISTANCE LOTTERY GAME. 1. THE DIRECTOR SHALL DEVELOP
4 AND IMPLEMENT NO MORE THAN TWO SCRATCH-OFF LOTTERY GAMES WHOSE REVENUE,
5 AFTER PAYMENT OF PRIZES AND ASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF SUCH
6 GAMES, SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE VETERANS' TUITION AWARDS ACCOUNT AND
7 SHALL BE KEPT SEPARATE AND NOT COMMINGLED WITH OTHER FUNDS OR ACCOUNTS
8 OF THE STATE. THIS LOTTERY GAME SHALL BE MARKETED AND DISTRIBUTED IN
9 THE SAME MANNER AS ALL LOTTERY GAMES CONTROLLED BY THE DIVISION. THIS
10 SECTION SHALL NOT DIMINISH ANY EFFORTS OR FUNDING FOR OTHER LOTTERY
11 GAMES UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE DIVISION. EACH TICKET SHALL CLEARLY STATE
12 THAT ALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES GO TOWARDS THE VETERANS' TUITION
13 AWARDS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE-A OF THE
14 EDUCATION LAW.
15 2. THE DIVISION SHALL ESTABLISH AND BEGIN SELLING TICKETS AS REQUIRED
16 BY THIS SECTION NO LATER THAN DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND THIR-
17 TEEN.
18 S 2. Section 1601 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 913 of the
19 laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
20 S 1601. Statement of purpose. This article is enacted to implement the
21 amendment of section nine of article one of the state constitution, as
22 approved by the vote of the people in the general election of November,
23 nineteen hundred sixty-six, and to carry out the mandate thereof by
24 establishing a lottery to be operated by the state, the net proceeds of
25 which, for the fiscal year commencing April first, nineteen hundred
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 seventy-six only, are to be applied exclusively for the purpose of
2 providing aid to pupils with special educational needs and pupils with
3 handicapping conditions. Thereafter, such net proceeds shall be applied
4 for the purpose of providing supplemental aid to all school children
5 pursuant to subdivision four of section ninety-two-c of the state
6 finance law so as to hold harmless those programs from any reduction
7 during the next fiscal year and so as to ensure that thereafter, subject
8 to the provisions of paragraph (v) of subdivision three and subdivision
9 five of section ninety-two-c of the state finance law and section four
10 hundred ninety-five-a of article ten-C of the education law, all
11 increases from the proceeds of the lottery shall be dedicated as
12 increases in the funds available for the purpose of this act. PROVIDED
13 THAT NET PROCEEDS FROM THE VETERAN ASSISTANCE LOTTERY GAME SHALL BE
14 APPLIED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL AID TO THE VETERANS'
15 TUITION AWARDS PROGRAM PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF
16 THIS ARTICLE AND SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE-A OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
17 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
