Bill Text: NY A03681 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3681

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Bill Title: Removes restrictions on the frequency certain authorized organizations may conduct bingo games.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - advanced to third reading cal.20 [A03681 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03681-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3681

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 29, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the general  municipal  law,  in  relation  to  removing
          restrictions  on  the  frequency  certain authorized organizations may
          conduct bingo games

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

     1    Section 1. Clauses (B) and (C) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of
     2  subdivision  2 of section 495-a of the general municipal law, as amended
     3  by chapter 470 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (B) within any apartment, condominium or cooperative complex,  retire-
     5  ment community, or other group residential complex or facility where (I)
     6  sponsored  by the operator of or an association related to such complex,
     7  community or facility, (II) such games  are  conducted  solely  for  the
     8  purpose of amusement and recreation of its residents, (III) no player or
     9  other  person furnishes anything of value for the opportunity to partic-
    10  ipate, (IV) the value of the prizes shall not exceed ten dollars for any
    11  one game or a total of one hundred fifty dollars in  any  calendar  day,
    12  and  (V) [such games are not conducted on more than one day per week and
    13  not more than thirty times during any calendar year, and (VI)] no person
    14  other than an employee or volunteer of such complex, community or facil-
    15  ity conducts or assists in conducting the game or games.
    16    (C) on behalf of any bona fide social, charitable, educational, recre-
    17  ational, fraternal, religious, not-for-profit or age group organization,
    18  club or association solely for the purpose of amusement  and  recreation
    19  of  its  members  or  beneficiaries  where (I) no player or other person
    20  furnishes anything of value for the opportunity to participate, (II) the
    21  value of the prizes shall not exceed ten dollars for any one game  or  a
    22  total  of  one  hundred  fifty  dollars in any calendar day, (III) [such
    23  games are not conducted on more than one day per week and not more  than
    24  thirty times during any calendar year, (IV)] no person other than a bona

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  fide active member of the organization, club or association participates
     2  in  the  conduct  of  the  games,  and  [(V)] (IV) no person is paid for
     3  conducting or assisting in the conduct of the game or games.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.