Bill Text: NY A08374 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes Suffolk and Nassau regional off-track betting corporations to host video lottery gaming devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to racing and wagering [A08374 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08374-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8374

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law  and
          the  tax law, in relation to allowing Suffolk off-track betting corpo-
          rations to host 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 regions, to install and operate up to three thou-
     4  sand 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.  The  opening  paragraph  of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph 1 of
     8  subdivision b of section 1612 of the tax law, as added by section  1  of
     9  part  EE  of  chapter  59  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
    10  follows:
    11    (ii) less a vendor's fee the amount of which is to be paid for serving
    12  as a lottery agent to the track operator of a vendor track or the opera-
    13  tor of any other video lottery gaming facility  authorized  pursuant  to
    14  section  sixteen  hundred seventeen-a of this article; and less vendor's
    15  fees to be paid for serving as a lottery agent to the  Suffolk  regional
    16  off-track  betting  corporations  operators  at authorized participating
    17  off-track betting facilities licensed pursuant  to  either  section  one
    18  thousand  eight or one thousand nine of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering
    19  and breeding law, which fees shall  be  aggregated  and  paid  in  equal
    20  amounts  to the county of Suffolk.  The amount of the vendor's fee shall
    21  be calculated as follows:
    22    § 3. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 1617-a of the tax law, as
    23  added by section 1 of part SS of chapter 60 of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
    24  amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13300-01-9
        A. 8374                             2

     1    (3)  a  maximum  of  two  facilities,  which  shall be vendors for all
     2  purposes under this article[,  neither  to  exceed  one  thousand  video
     3  lottery  gaming devices,] established within region three of zone one as
     4  defined by section one thousand three hundred ten of the  racing,  pari-
     5  mutuel  wagering  and  breeding  law, one each operated by a corporation
     6  established pursuant to section five hundred two of the racing, pari-mu-
     7  tuel wagering and breeding law in the  Suffolk  region  and  the  Nassau
     8  region  to  be located within a facility authorized pursuant to sections
     9  one thousand eight or one  thousand  nine  of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
    10  wagering  and  breeding law, provided however, that in the Nassau region
    11  such facility shall not exceed one thousand video lottery gaming devices
    12  and in the Suffolk region such facility shall not exceed three  thousand
    13  video lottery gaming devices; and
    14    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.