Senate Bill S8502

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Authorizes Native American nations and tribes to make payments to municipal governments hosting tribal casinos

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S8502 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Exec L; amd §99-h, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S866
2013-2014: S3083

2009-S8502 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes Native American nations and tribes to make payments to municipal governments hosting tribal casinos; such payments shall be in lieu of payments that the state is otherwise required to make to the municipal government.

2009-S8502 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8502 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8502

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            October 18, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG,  MAZIARZ,  RANZENHOFER  --  read twice and
  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
  Rules

AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
  to authorizing municipal governments hosting tribal casinos to receive
  payments directly from Native American nations or tribes

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 12 of the executive law is amended by adding a  new
subdivision (d) to read as follows:
  (D)  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, ANY MUNICIPAL GOVERN-
MENT THAT HOSTS GAMING AND RELATED FACILITIES OF THE NATION MAY  RECEIVE
PAYMENTS  DIRECTLY  FROM  THE  NATION  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION TWO-A OF
SECTION NINETY-NINE-H OF THE STATE FINANCE  LAW,  AS  ADDED  BY  CHAPTER
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND ONE. ANY PAYMENTS
MADE  BY THE NATION DIRECTLY TO A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT THAT HOSTS GAMING
AND RELATED FACILITIES PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  DEEMED  TO
HAVE  BEEN  MADE IN SATISFACTION OF THE COMPACT, AND SUCH PAYMENTS SHALL
BE DEDUCTED FROM THE AMOUNTS THE STATE IS REQUIRED TO PAY SUCH MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF SUCH  SECTION  NINE-
TY-NINE-H.
  S  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  99-h  of the state finance law, as
amended by chapter 747 of the laws of 2006, is amended and a new  subdi-
vision 2-a is added to read as follows:
  2.  Such  account shall consist of all revenues resulting from tribal-
state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive law and
a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed pursuant
to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two  thousand  four,  LESS
ANY  PAYMENTS MADE DIRECTLY BY A NATIVE AMERICAN NATION OR TRIBE, PURSU-
ANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO-A OF THIS SECTION, TO A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT THAT
HOSTS A TRIBAL CASINO.
  2-A. A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT THAT HOSTS A  TRIBAL  CASINO  MAY  RECEIVE
PAYMENTS  DIRECTLY  FROM  A  NATIVE  AMERICAN NATION OR TRIBE; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, THAT THE CHIEF  FISCAL  OFFICER  OF  THE  MUNICIPAL  GOVERNMENT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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