Bill Text: NY A02147 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education and prohibits co-mingling with funds for other purposes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-15 - enacting clause stricken [A02147 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02147-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2147
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  STEVENSON  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         ABINANTI, BOYLAND, CASTRO, CERETTO, ESPINAL, GIBSON, JAFFEE,  MONTESA-
         NO,  PEOPLES-STOKES, ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
         use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education
         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 92-c of the state finance law, as
    2  amended by chapter 913 of the laws  of  1977,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  The  moneys in such fund shall be appropriated or transferred only
    5  FOR PROVIDING AID TO ELEMENTARY AND  SECONDARY  EDUCATION  AND  FOR  THE
    6  PURPOSE  OF  PROVIDING  AID  TO PUPILS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS
    7  DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH E OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED
    8  TWO  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  AND  PUPILS  WITH HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS
    9  RECEIVING STATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS DELINEATED IN PARAGRAPH F
   10  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION  THIRTY-SIX   HUNDRED   TWO,   ARTICLE
   11  EIGHTY-THREE,  ARTICLE EIGHTY-FIVE, ARTICLE EIGHTY-SEVEN, ARTICLE EIGHT-
   12  Y-EIGHT, ARTICLE EIGHTY-NINE, AND ARTICLE FORTY OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,
   13  AND  THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AID TO ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN PURSUANT TO THE
   14  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION; AND SHALL NOT BE CO-MIN-
   15  GLED WITH FUNDS DESIGNATED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, EXCEPT (i) for  repay-
   16  ment  of  first  instance  expenditures incurred in the operation of the
   17  state lottery, AND (ii) [for the  state  fiscal  year  commencing  April
   18  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-six only for the purpose of providing
   19  aid to pupils with special educational needs as defined in  paragraph  e
   20  of  subdivision  one  of section thirty-six hundred two of the education
   21  law, and pupils with handicapping conditions receiving  state  financial
   22  support  for  programs  delineated  in paragraph f of subdivision one of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00625-01-3
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    1  section thirty-six hundred two, article  eighty-three,  article  eighty-
    2  five,  article  eighty-seven, article eighty-eight, article eighty-nine,
    3  article forty and subdivision seventeen of  section  thirty-six  hundred
    4  two of the education law, and for any state fiscal year commencing after
    5  such nineteen hundred seventy-six fiscal year for the purpose of provid-
    6  ing aid to all school children pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
    7  four  of  this  section,  (iii)  for elementary and secondary education,
    8  (iv)] for expenditures for machines or other capital equipment which the
    9  division of the lottery is authorized to purchase for the  operation  of
   10  the  lottery[  and  (v) for payment in the state fiscal years commencing
   11  April first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, nineteen  hundred  seventy-
   12  eight and nineteen hundred seventy-nine into the winter sports education
   13  trust  fund, as created in section four hundred ninety-five-a of article
   14  ten-C of the education law, for the purposes of such fund in  accordance
   15  with  the  provisions of subdivision five of this section. Payments into
   16  such trust fund shall discontinue at such time as the sum of one hundred
   17  million dollars, in the aggregate, has been paid into such fund or  upon
   18  March  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty,  whichever event occurs
   19  first]. Nothing herein shall prohibit the purchase of machines or  other
   20  capital  equipment  from funds appropriated for expenditures under para-
   21  graph (i) [hereof] OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   23  have  become  a law and shall apply to revenues collected as a result of
   24  the New York state lottery for education  occurring  on  or  after  such
   25  date.