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