Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7787
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 6, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wager-
ing
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming
facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1352 of the racing, pari-mutuel
2 wagering and breeding law is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to
3 read as follows:
4 (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any host county
5 and host municipality that was appropriated aid in the year two thousand
6 twenty-five pursuant to paragraph b of subdivision three of section
7 ninety-seven-nnnn of the state finance law, taxes collected from gaming
8 facilities licensed under title two-A of this article must hold such
9 host counties and host municipalities harmless so that the host counties
10 and host municipalities do not receive less money in any state fiscal
11 year following the commencement of gaming operations of any gaming
12 facility licensed under title two-A of this article than such host coun-
13 ties or host municipalities received in their highest annual aid in any
14 year since the commencement of gaming operations from any gaming facili-
15 ty licensed pursuant to title two of this article. The provisions of
16 this paragraph shall apply as of the first full state fiscal year in
17 which any gaming facility licensed under title two-A of this article has
18 commenced gaming operations.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11477-03-5
