Bill Text: NY S00592 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00592 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00592-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 592 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison 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 99-h of the state finance law, as 2 amended by section 7 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations 5 enacted by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including 6 but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal govern- 7 ments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for 8 costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or 9 arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and 10 job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev- 11 er, that for any gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo, the 12 city of Buffalo shall receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the 13 negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the 14 state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided further that for 15 any gaming facility located in the city of Niagara Falls, county of 16 Niagara a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of 17 the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state receives pursuant 18 to the compact shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision four 19 of this section, and provided further that for any gaming facility 20 located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua or Allega- 21 ny, the municipal governments of the state hosting the facility shall 22 collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated 23 percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state 24 receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that pursuant to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04652-01-1S. 592 2 1 chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four, a minimum 2 of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the state pursuant to 3 the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe shall be made avail- 4 able to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, and affected towns in 5 such counties. Each such county and its affected towns shall receive 6 fifty percent of the moneys made available by the state; and provided 7 further that the state shall annually make twenty-five percent of the 8 negotiated percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices the state 9 actually receives pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement confirmed 10 by section eleven of the executive law as available to the county of 11 Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop 12 from all gaming devices located within the county of Madison for which 13 the state actually receives payment and a sum of three and one-half 14 million dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall 15 distribute for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional 16 annual sum of two and one-half million dollars to the county of Oneida. 17 Additionally, the state shall distribute the one-time eleven million 18 dollar payment received by the state pursuant to such agreement with the 19 Oneida Nation of New York to the county of Madison by wire transfer upon 20 receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) support and services of 21 treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions. 22 Moneys not segregated for such purposes shall be transferred to the 23 general fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in 24 which they are received. 25 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as 26 amended by section 8 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to 27 read as follows: 28 3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations 29 enacted by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including 30 but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal govern- 31 ments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for 32 costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or 33 arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and 34 job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev- 35 er, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or 36 Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collec- 37 tively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated 38 percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state 39 receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any 40 gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chau- 41 tauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the 42 facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of 43 the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices 44 the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that 45 pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand 46 four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the 47 state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe 48 shall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence, 49 and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected 50 towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the 51 state; and provided further that the state shall annually make twenty- 52 five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from all 53 gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant to the Oneida 54 Settlement Agreement confirmed by section eleven of the executive law 55 available to the county of Oneida, twenty-five percent of the negotiated 56 percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices located within theS. 592 3 1 county of Madison for which the state actually receives payment and a 2 sum of three and one-half million dollars to the county of Madison. 3 Additionally, the state shall distribute, for a period of nineteen and 4 one-quarter years, an additional annual sum of two and one-half million 5 dollars to the county of Oneida. Additionally, the state shall distrib- 6 ute the one-time eleven million dollar payment actually received by the 7 state pursuant to the Oneida Settlement Agreement to the county of Madi- 8 son by wire transfer upon receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) 9 support and services of treatment programs for persons suffering from 10 gambling addictions. Moneys not segregated for such purposes shall be 11 transferred to the general fund for the support of government during the 12 fiscal year in which they are received. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect June 1, 2022 and shall be deemed in 14 full force and effect on the date the state actually receives payment 15 from gaming devices located in Madison county, provided that the amend- 16 ments to subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law made by 17 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion 18 of such section as provided in section 2 of chapter 747 of the laws of 19 2006, as amended when upon such date the provisions of section two of 20 this act shall take effect.
