STATE OF NEW YORK
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362
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to returning the aid
to localities payments for eligible municipalities in which video
lottery gaming facilities are located to the 2008-2009 state fiscal
year levels; and to amend chapter 53 of the laws of 2013, enacting the
Aid to Localities budget, in relation to payments of aid to eligible
municipalities in which video lottery gaming facilities are located
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 54-l of the state
2 finance law, as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 55 of the laws
3 of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. Within the amounts appropriated therefor, eligible municipalities
5 shall receive an amount equal to [seventy percent of] the state aid
6 payment received in the state fiscal year commencing April first, two
7 thousand eight from an appropriation for aid to municipalities with
8 video lottery gaming facilities.
9 § 2. That part, entitled "Miscellaneous -- All state departments and
10 agencies -- Local Government Assistance", of section 1 of chapter 53 of
11 the laws of 2013 entitled "Aid to Localities budget", is amended by
12 adding thereto the items hereinbelow set forth in italics and is amended
13 by deleting therefrom the items hereinbelow set forth in brackets as
14 follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 MISCELLANEOUS -- ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
2 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
3 AID TO LOCALITIES 2013-14
4 For payment according to the following schedule:
5 APPROPRIATIONS REAPPROPRIATIONS
6 General Fund ....................... [826,336,217] 87,073,000
7 832,591,954
8 Fiduciary Funds .................... 30,000,000 0
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10 All Funds ........................ [856,336,217] 87,073,000
11 862,591,954
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13 AID TO MUNICIPALITIES WITH VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING FACILITIES
14 ........................................... [27,245,917] 33,501,654
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16 General Fund
17 Local Assistance Account
18 For payment of aid to the city of Yonkers as
19 an eligible city in which a video lottery
20 gaming facility is located pursuant to
21 section 54-l of the state finance law. The
22 amount appropriated herein shall be avail-
23 able for payment to the city pursuant to
24 section 54-l of the state finance law no
25 earlier than April 1, 2014 and no later
26 than June 30, 2014 on audit and warrant of
27 the state comptroller notwithstanding any
28 provision of law to the contrary including
29 any contrary provision of section 40 or
30 section 54-l of the state finance law.
31 Such payment shall constitute complete
32 liquidation of the state's obligation to
33 the city under section 54-l of the state
34 finance law for the state fiscal year
35 commencing on April 1, 2014 ... 19,600,000
36 For payment of aid to eligible munici-
37 palities in which a video lottery gaming
38 facility is located pursuant to section
39 54-l of the state finance law. Notwith-
40 standing any provision of law to the
41 contrary, such municipalities shall
42 receive aid in an amount equal to 55
43 percent of the aid which such munici-
44 palities received [in the state fiscal
45 year] commencing [April 1, 2008] January
46 1, 2013 pursuant to section 54-l of the
47 state finance law ............ [7,645,917] 13,901,654
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2 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
3 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2013.
