Requires the division of lottery to produce a scratch off lottery ticket with an arts theme; proceeds from such lottery ticket shall be made available for the support of elementary and secondary art education curriculums.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3585
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GABRYSZAK, MORELLE, MILLMAN, LATIMER, TITONE --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. P. LOPEZ, PHEFFER, J. RIVERA, ROBINSON,
WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Racing and
Wagering
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
creating arts themed lottery tickets with the proceeds given to
elementary and secondary arts education curriculums
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 1621 to read
2 as follows:
3 § 1621. Arts education lottery tickets. Notwithstanding any other
4 provision of law to the contrary, the division of lottery shall produce
5 a scratch off lottery ticket with an arts theme, the proceeds of which
6 shall be made available for the support of elementary and secondary arts
7 education curriculums. The net proceeds from the sale of such tickets
8 shall be deposited into the arts education account established pursuant
9 to subdivision two of section ninety-two-c of the state finance law.
10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 92-c of the state finance law, as
11 amended by chapter 913 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 2. Such fund shall consist of the state lottery revenues including
14 those revenues derived from lottery tickets sold for the support of
15 winter sports physical education in commemoration of the XIII olympic
16 winter games, as well as those revenues derived from lottery tickets
17 sold for the support of elementary and secondary arts education curric-
18 ulums, if any, paid into the same by the division of the lottery as
19 provided in section sixteen hundred twelve of the New York state lottery
20 for education law, and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto
21 from any other fund or sources pursuant to law. There shall be estab-
22 lished within such fund an account to be known as the winter sports
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 physical education account which shall consist of state lottery revenues
2 paid into the fund as derived solely from the sale of lottery tickets
3 sold for the support of winter sports physical education in commem-
4 oration of the XIII olympic winter games. There shall also be estab-
5 lished within such fund an account to be known as the arts education
6 account which shall consist of state lottery revenues paid into the fund
7 as derived solely from the sale of lottery tickets for the support of
8 elementary and secondary arts education curriculums. Upon such estab-
9 lishment there shall also be established within such fund a separate
10 account, to be known as the state lottery regular account, which shall
11 consist of state lottery revenues other than revenues derived from the
12 sale of lottery tickets sold for the support of winter sports physical
13 education in commemoration of the XIII olympic winter games and elemen-
14 tary and secondary arts education curriculums. Such state lottery regu-
15 lar account shall also consist of any lottery revenues transferred from
16 the winter sports physical education account to the state lottery regu-
17 lar account in the manner provided for in subdivision five of this
18 section. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
19 monies deposited into the arts education account may not be transferred
20 from that account into any other fund or account of the state.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
