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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4721--A
            Cal. No. 568
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 19, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, amended on second report, ordered to a third reading,  and  to

          be  reprinted  as  amended,  retaining its place in the order of third
          reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation  to  powers  of  the
          commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (h) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as added by section 6 of part I of chapter 58 of the laws  of  2005,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (h)  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring
     5  the [state] division of horse racing and  pari-mutuel  wagering  [board]
     6  and  the  [state lottery] division of lottery to provide for the posting

     7  of signs in facilities [licensed] regulated by the [state]  division  of
     8  horse  racing  and  pari-mutuel  wagering  [board to conduct pari-mutuel
     9  wagering] and facilities [licensed] regulated  by  the  [state  lottery]
    10  division of lottery advising where to get help in dealing with a compul-
    11  sion  to  gamble.  In  addition, the information contained on such signs
    12  shall be posted on the internet  at  appropriate  internet  sites.  Such
    13  signs  and  information posted on the internet shall include, but not be
    14  limited to, notice of the availability of  one  or  more  organizations,
    15  approved  by  the commissioner, which offer assistance in the prevention
    16  and treatment of compulsive gambling. Such signs, not  less  than  eight

    17  and one-half inches by eleven inches, shall be [conspicuously] posted in
    18  a  prominent  manner and within reasonable distance of each entrance and
    19  exit by the facility which is conducting the gambling.  Such signs shall
    20  be available at the [state] division of  horse  racing  and  pari-mutuel
    21  wagering  [board],  the  [state  lottery]  division  of lottery, and the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06202-02-3
        S. 4721--A                          2
 
     1  office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and shall be  distrib-

     2  uted by the appropriate licensing agency.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.