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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8374--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STERN, JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Racing and Wagering  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law  and
          the  tax  law,  in  relation  to allowing Suffolk and Nassau off-track
          betting corporations 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. Subdivision 14 of section 503 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering
     8  and breeding law, as added by section 3 of part SS of chapter 60 of  the
     9  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
    10    14.  Nassau regional off-track betting is authorized to enter into and
    11  perform an agreement pursuant to paragraph  four  of  subdivision  a  of
    12  section  sixteen  hundred  seventeen-a  of the tax law to have up to two
    13  thousand video lottery terminals authorized pursuant to paragraph  three
    14  of  subdivision  a of section sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law
    15  hosted within the Aqueduct video lottery terminal facility.
    16    § 3. The opening paragraph of subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph  1  of
    17  subdivision  b  of section 1612 of the tax law, as added by section 1 of
    18  part EE of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
    19  follows:
    20    less a vendor's fee the amount of which is to be paid for serving as a
    21  lottery agent to the track operator of a vendor track or the operator of
    22  any  other  video lottery gaming facility authorized pursuant to section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13300-08-9
        A. 8374--A                          2

     1  sixteen hundred seventeen-a of this article; and in the Suffolk  region,
     2  less  vendor's  fees  generated  from  the additional one thousand video
     3  lottery gaming terminals, authorized  pursuant  to  paragraph  three  of
     4  subdivision  a  of  section one thousand six hundred seventeen-a of this
     5  article, to be paid to the county of Suffolk and  which  fees  shall  be
     6  used  in equal amounts by the county of Suffolk for economic development
     7  and clean water infrastructure.  The amount of the vendor's fee shall be
     8  calculated as follows:
     9    § 4. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 1617-a of the tax law, as
    10  added by section 1 of part SS of chapter 60 of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
    11  amended to read as follows:
    12    (3)  a  maximum  of  two  facilities,  which  shall be vendors for all
    13  purposes under this article[,  neither  to  exceed  one  thousand  video
    14  lottery  gaming devices,] established within region three of zone one as
    15  defined by section one thousand three hundred ten of the  racing,  pari-
    16  mutuel  wagering  and  breeding  law, one each operated by a corporation
    17  established pursuant to section five hundred two of the racing, pari-mu-
    18  tuel wagering and breeding law in the  Suffolk  region  and  the  Nassau
    19  region  to  be located within a facility authorized pursuant to sections
    20  one thousand eight or one  thousand  nine  of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
    21  wagering  and  breeding law, provided however, that in the Nassau region
    22  such facility shall not exceed two thousand video lottery gaming devices
    23  and in the Suffolk region such facility shall not  exceed  two  thousand
    24  video lottery gaming devices; and
    25    §  5.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.