Bill Text: NY S04948 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Regulates the proportional distribution of revenues from the sale of lottery tickets between expenses of the lottery and state education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [S04948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04948-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4948
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  the  proportional
          distribution of moneys realized from the state lottery
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 92-c of the state finance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
     3    e.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision of this section, any
     4  moneys paid in support of elementary or secondary education pursuant  to
     5  the provisions of this section shall be in addition to any moneys other-
     6  wise  appropriated  by the state for such purposes. Any state aid other-
     7  wise required or made available to the school  districts  of  the  state
     8  shall  be calculated as if the provisions of this section and the reven-
     9  ues made available by this section are not in force and effect.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section  92-c  of  the  state  finance  law,  as
    11  amended  by  chapter 92 of the laws of 1976 and as renumbered by chapter
    12  913 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
    13    7. In no fiscal year shall the total amount paid  from  the  fund  for
    14  expenses of the lottery, exclusive of expenditures for machines or other
    15  capital  equipment  which  the  division of the lottery is authorized to
    16  purchase for the operation of the lottery, exceed an amount which,  when
    17  added to any amount retained by lottery sales agents as compensation for
    18  their  services,  equals  [fifteen]  ten percent of the total amount for
    19  which lottery tickets are sold during such fiscal year.
    20    § 3. Section 92-c of the state finance law is amended by adding a  new
    21  subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
    22    7-a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section, in no
    23  fiscal  year  shall  the  total  amount paid from the fund in support of
    24  elementary or secondary education pursuant to  the  provisions  of  this
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  section  be  less  than  fifty  per centum of the total amount for which
     2  lottery tickets are sold during such fiscal year.
     3    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     4  the date on which it shall have become a law.