STATE OF NEW YORK
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6099
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2019
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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 amended 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:
15 MISCELLANEOUS -- ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
16 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
17 AID TO LOCALITIES 2013-14
18 For payment according to the following schedule:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08015-01-9
A. 6099 2
1 APPROPRIATIONS REAPPROPRIATIONS
2 General Fund ....................... [826,336,217] 87,073,000
3 832,591,954
4 Fiduciary Funds .................... 30,000,000 0
5 ---------------- ----------------
6 All Funds ........................ [856,336,217] 87,073,000
7 862,591,954
8 ================ ================
9 AID TO MUNICIPALITIES WITH VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING FACILITIES
10 ........................................... [27,245,917] 33,501,654
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12 General Fund
13 Local Assistance Account
14 For payment of aid to the city of Yonkers as
15 an eligible city in which a video lottery
16 gaming facility is located pursuant to
17 section 54-l of the state finance law. The
18 amount appropriated herein shall be avail-
19 able for payment to the city pursuant to
20 section 54-l of the state finance law no
21 earlier than April 1, 2014 and no later
22 than June 30, 2014 on audit and warrant of
23 the state comptroller notwithstanding any
24 provision of law to the contrary including
25 any contrary provision of section 40 or
26 section 54-l of the state finance law.
27 Such payment shall constitute complete
28 liquidation of the state's obligation to
29 the city under section 54-l of the state
30 finance law for the state fiscal year
31 commencing on April 1, 2014 ... 19,600,000
32 For payment of aid to eligible munici-
33 palities in which a video lottery gaming
34 facility is located pursuant to section
35 54-l of the state finance law. Notwith-
36 standing any provision of law to the
37 contrary, such municipalities shall
38 receive aid in an amount equal to 55
39 percent of the aid which such munici-
40 palities received [in the state fiscal
41 year] commencing [April 1, 2008] January
42 1, 2013 pursuant to section 54-l of the
43 state finance law ............ [7,645,917] 13,901,654
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45 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
46 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2013.
