Bill Text: NY S07685 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes Suffolk regional off-track betting corporations to host up to 2000 video lottery gaming devices; provides that in the Nassau region such facility shall not exceed one thousand video lottery gaming devices.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-28 - SIGNED CHAP.811 [S07685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07685-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7685--B

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 7, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  GAUGHRAN,  BOYLE, MATTERA, WEIK -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Racing,  Gaming  and  Wagering  -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          reported  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
          on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law  and
          the  tax law, in relation to allowing certain off-track betting corpo-
          rations to host additional video lottery gaming devices

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

     1    Section  1. Section 503 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breed-
     2  ing law is amended by adding a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
     3    10-a. In the Suffolk region, to install and operate up to two thousand
     4  video lottery gaming terminals at  a  corporation's  facility  which  is
     5  licensed  pursuant to section one thousand eight or one thousand nine of
     6  this chapter;
     7    § 2. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 1617-a of the tax law, as
     8  added by section 1 of part SS of chapter 60 of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
     9  amended to read as follows:
    10    (3)  a  maximum  of  two  facilities,  which  shall be vendors for all
    11  purposes under this article[,  neither  to  exceed  one  thousand  video
    12  lottery  gaming devices,] established within region three of zone one as
    13  defined by section one thousand three hundred ten of the  racing,  pari-
    14  mutuel  wagering  and  breeding  law, one each operated by a corporation
    15  established pursuant to section five hundred two of the racing, pari-mu-
    16  tuel wagering and breeding law in the  Suffolk  region  and  the  Nassau
    17  region  to  be located within a facility authorized pursuant to sections
    18  one thousand eight or one  thousand  nine  of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
    19  wagering and breeding law, provided however, that in the  Nassau  region
    20  such facility shall not exceed one thousand video lottery gaming devices
    21  and  in  the  Suffolk region such facility shall not exceed two thousand
    22  video lottery gaming devices; and
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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