Bill Text: NY A10211 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes one percent of mobile sports tax revenue be used for problem gambling, one percent for youth sports and education funding, and one percent for youth team sports funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - referred to racing and wagering [A10211 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10211-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10211

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pretlow,
          Wallace) -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Racing  and
          Wagering

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law,in
          relation to authorizing one percent of mobile sports  tax  revenue  be
          used  for problem gambling, one percent for youth sports and education
          funding, and one percent for youth team sports funding

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  8 of section 1367 of the racing, pari-mutuel
     2  wagering and breeding law, as added by section 3 of part Y of chapter 59
     3  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    8. (a) Notwithstanding section  thirteen  hundred  fifty-one  of  this
     5  article,  mobile  sports  wagering  gross gaming revenue and tax revenue
     6  shall be excluded from sports wagering  gross  gaming  revenue  and  tax
     7  revenue.    Mobile sports wagering tax revenue shall be separately main-
     8  tained and returned to the state for deposit into the state lottery fund
     9  for education aid except as otherwise provided in this subdivision.  Any
    10  interest  and  penalties  imposed  by  the  commission relating to those
    11  taxes, all penalties levied and collected by  the  commission,  and  the
    12  appropriate  funds,  cash or prizes forfeited from sports wagering shall
    13  be deposited into the state lottery fund for education.
    14    (b) In the first fiscal year in which mobile sports wagering licensees
    15  commence operations and accept mobile sports  wagers  pursuant  to  this
    16  section,  the  commission  shall pay into the commercial gaming fund one
    17  percent of the state tax imposed  on  mobile  sports  wagering  by  this
    18  section  to  be distributed for problem gambling education and treatment
    19  purposes pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision four of section  ninety-
    20  seven-nnnn  of the state finance law; provided however, that such amount
    21  shall be equal to one percent of mobile sports tax revenue and  no  less
    22  than six million dollars for each fiscal year thereafter.
    23    (c) In the first fiscal year in which mobile sports wagering licensees
    24  commence  operations  and  accept  mobile sports wagers pursuant to this
    25  section, the commission shall pay one percent of the state  tax  imposed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15197-01-4
        A. 10211                            2

     1  on mobile sports wagering by this section to the general fund, a program
     2  to  be  administered by the office of children and family services for a
     3  statewide youth sports activities and education grant  program  for  the
     4  purpose  of  providing  annual  awards  to sports teams and programs for
     5  underserved youth under the  age  of  eighteen  years  for  programming,
     6  improvements,  and capital equipment; provided however, that such amount
     7  shall be equal to one percent of mobile sports tax revenue and  no  less
     8  than  five million dollars for each fiscal year thereafter. This funding
     9  shall be distributed by county youth bureaus, except in the city of  New
    10  York,  where  the funding shall be distributed by Laureus Sport for Good
    11  Foundation USA. In all cases, availability of funding and standards  for
    12  being awarded a grant shall be widely advertised, and a report on organ-
    13  izations  receiving  awards  and  the impact of the awards shall be made
    14  annually by the December first following the conclusion of the grant  to
    15  the office of children and family services.
    16    (d)  The commission shall require at least monthly deposits by a plat-
    17  form provider of any payments pursuant  to  subdivision  seven  of  this
    18  section,  at such times, under such conditions, and in such depositories
    19  as shall be prescribed by the state comptroller. The deposits  shall  be
    20  deposited to the credit of the state commercial gaming revenue fund. The
    21  commission  shall  require a monthly report and reconciliation statement
    22  to be filed with it on or before the  tenth  day  of  each  month,  with
    23  respect  to gross revenues and deposits received and made, respectively,
    24  during the preceding month.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    26  the date on which it shall have become a law.