Bill Text: NY S02139 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to permitting state aid provided to municipalities in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to be used for transportation improvements and highway repairs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-19 - referred to ways and means [S02139 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S02139-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2139--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 18, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to permitted uses for state aid to municipalities in which a video lottery gaming facility is located 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 54-l of the state finance law, as 2 added by section 1 of part J of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. a. State aid payments made to an eligible city pursuant to para- 5 graph a of subdivision two of this section shall be used to increase 6 support for public schools in such city. 7 b. State aid payments made to an eligible municipality pursuant to 8 paragraph b of subdivision two of this section shall be used by such 9 eligible municipality to: (i) defray local costs associated with a video 10 lottery gaming facility[, or]; (ii) minimize or reduce real property 11 taxes; OR (III) FUND HIGHWAY REPAIRS AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01421-02-2