Bill Text: NY S00491 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 491 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the maximum bingo prize awards in a single game and on single bingo occasions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S00491 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00491-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          491
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
         ing
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
         maximum prize awards allowed in bingo games
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 479 of the general  munici-
    2  pal  law,  as amended by chapter 328 of the laws of 1994, are amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    5. No prize shall exceed the sum or  value  of  [one]  THREE  thousand
    5  dollars in any single game of bingo.
    6    6.  No series of prizes on any one bingo occasion shall aggregate more
    7  than [three] SIX thousand dollars.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01923-01-1