Bill Text: NY S01275 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes a lottery game for a community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-15 - OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01275-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1275
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
        proposing an amendment to section 9 of article 1 of the constitution, in
          relation to authorizing a lottery game for  a  community  grant  fund,
          which fund shall be dedicated to certain community groups
     1    Section  1.  Resolved  (if the Assembly concur), That subdivision 1 of
     2  section 9 of article 1  of  the  constitution  be  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people peaceably
     5  to  assemble  and to petition the government, or any department thereof;
     6  nor shall  any  divorce  be  granted  otherwise  than  by  due  judicial
     7  proceedings;  except  as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sale of
     8  lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of  gambl-
     9  ing,  except  lotteries  operated  by  the state and the sale of lottery
    10  tickets in connection therewith as may be authorized and  prescribed  by
    11  the  legislature, the net proceeds of which shall be applied exclusively
    12  to or in aid or support of education in this state  as  the  legislature
    13  may prescribe, except that the legislature may enact legislation author-
    14  izing  the  creation  of  a  separate lottery game the proceeds of which
    15  shall be applied exclusively to a community grant fund to be created  by
    16  such  legislation,  which  fund  shall  be dedicated to community groups
    17  organized pursuant to paragraph three or  four  of  subdivision  (c)  of
    18  section  five  hundred  one  of  the  internal  revenue code of nineteen
    19  hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational,
    20  cultural, senior, veterans or  social  services  programs  or  providing
    21  volunteer  ambulance  services, as the legislature may prescribe, except
    22  pari-mutuel betting on horse races as may be prescribed by the  legisla-
    23  ture  and from which the state shall derive a reasonable revenue for the
    24  support of government, and except casino gambling at no more than  seven
    25  facilities  as  authorized and prescribed by the legislature shall here-
    26  after be authorized or allowed within this state;  and  the  legislature
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89013-01-7

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     1  shall  pass  appropriate  laws  to  prevent  offenses against any of the
     2  provisions of this section.
     3    §  2.  Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment
     4  be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
     5  next succeeding general election of members of  the  assembly,  and,  in
     6  conformity  with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution, be
     7  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.
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