NY State Senate Bill 2017-S1529

Senate Bill S1529

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes the creation of the community group assistance lottery game and establishes the community grant fund

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Racing, Gaming And Wagering Committee

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2017-S1529 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Racing, Gaming And Wagering
Law Section:: Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1621, Tax L; add §97-pppp, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S7335
2013-2014: S723
2015-2016: S945

2017-S1529 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the creation of the community group assistance lottery game and establishes the community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services.

2017-S1529 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S1529

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing the creation
of the community group assistance lottery game; and to amend the state
finance law, in relation to establishing the community grant fund

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 of the bill amends the tax law by adding a new section 1621
that creates the community group assistance lottery game. No more than
2 scratch-off lottery games shall be developed and implemented and
whose revenue, after payment for prizes and associated administrative
costs of such games, shall be deposited in the community grant fund.

Section 2 of the bill amends the state finance law by adding a new
section 97-pppp that creates the community grant fund as follows:

a. The fund will be in the sole custody of the state comptroller and
monies to the fund shall and not co-mingled with other funds in the
custody of the comptroller.

b. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for costs associated with
assistance for community groups (organized as IRS 50I(c)(3) or (c)(4)
entities) administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior,

veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance
services.

c. Each county in the state shall establish a regional community grant
fund board to administer the funds directed to each county.
Appointments to such a regional community grant fund board shall
include but need not be limited to, the county executive, one member
of the assembly and one member of the senate representing an election
district in which all or a portion of the relevant county is located,
such legislative members to be appointed by the governor, and such
other members as may be deemed necessary or appropriate by the county
executive.

d. The funding for community groups coming from the revenue generated
by the community groups assistance lottery game shall be allocated to
each county in proportion to the number of lottery sales that took
place in each county. Each regional community grant fund board shall
create a district grant program that will disperse funds to individual
groups based on need. Individual grants will be awarded through an
application process based on criteria created by each board consistent
with the purposes of this section and section 1621 of the tax law.

e. Monies shall be credited towards the fund in form of gift,
donation, federal assistance or grant, transfers, payment,
appropriation or by a dedicated revenue source including the community
groups assistance lottery game.

f. Monies of the fund shall not be used, transferred or appropriated
for any purpose other than what is provided in this section, except
that such monies may be used for minimal costs associated with
administering each direct grant program.

Section 3 of the bill sets forth an effective date of ninety days
after it shall have become a law.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Since 2010, the executive branch of the state has ceased any
allocation of discretionary funds that could be used to fund local
programs in legislators' districts. The loss of these funds has placed
tremendous financial burden on local groups that have relied on this
supportive funding to provide vital community programs to the state's
residents. This loss is on top of already draconian budget cuts that
occurred in 2011 and the loss of private funding sources that began to
disappear as a result of the national economic crises in 2008.

Community programs have been left in the cold in their efforts to
provide educational, recreational, cultural, senior and veterans
programs or volunteer ambulance services to communities that have
relied on those services for years. This includes things like senior
centers, youth sports programs like Little League, afterschool
programs and many, many other important community based programs.

The new lottery game proceeds that will be dedicated to the "Community
Grant Fund" will enable these important community programs to continue
to operate.

The state government cannot keep asking our citizens to bear the
tremendous burden of cuts in services to due state budget deficits and
simultaneously remove funding sources that are depended upon by local
community groups that often step in to fill the void left when state
government services are reduced or eliminated.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-16: S.945-A
2013-14: S.723
2011-12: S.7335-B

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
The act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2017-S1529 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1529
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. AVELLA, PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Racing,  Gaming
   and Wagering
 
 AN  ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing the creation of
   the community group assistance lottery game; and to  amend  the  state
   finance law, in relation to establishing the community grant fund
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 1621 to read
 as follows:
   § 1621. COMMUNITY GROUPS ASSISTANCE LOTTERY GAME. A. THE  DIRECTOR  OF
 THE DIVISION OF THE LOTTERY SHALL DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT NO MORE THAN TWO
 SCRATCH-OFF  LOTTERY  GAMES  WHOSE REVENUE, AFTER PAYMENT FOR PRIZES AND
 ASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF SUCH GAMES, SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE
 COMMUNITY GRANT FUND AS ESTABLISHED IN SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-PPPP OF  THE
 STATE  FINANCE  LAW. THIS LOTTERY GAME SHALL BE MARKETED AND DISTRIBUTED
 IN THE SAME MANNER AS ALL LOTTERY GAMES CONTROLLED BY  THE  DIVISION  OF
 THE  LOTTERY. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT DIMINISH ANY EFFORTS OR FUNDING FOR
 OTHER LOTTERY GAMES UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE DIVISION  OF  THE  LOTTERY.
 EACH  TICKET  SHALL CLEARLY STATE THAT ALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES GO
 TOWARDS THE COMMUNITY GRANT FUND.
   B. THE DIVISION OF THE LOTTERY SHALL ESTABLISH AND BEGIN SELLING TICK-
 ETS AS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION NO LATER THAN DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHTEEN.
   § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section  97-pppp
 to read as follows:
   § 97-PPPP. COMMUNITY GRANT FUND. 1. THE COMMUNITY GRANT FUND IS ESTAB-
 LISHED  IN THE SOLE CUSTODY OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER. MONIES IN THE FUND
 SHALL BE KEPT SEPARATE AND NOT COMMINGLED WITH OTHER FUNDS IN THE CUSTO-
 DY OF THE COMPTROLLER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00745-01-7

 S. 1529                             2
 
   2. MONIES OF THE FUND SHALL BE EXPENDED ONLY FOR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
 ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS ORGANIZED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH THREE OR
 FOUR OF SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION FIVE  HUNDRED  ONE  OF  THE  INTERNAL
 REVENUE  CODE  OF NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX, AS AMENDED, ADMINISTERING
 EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL, SENIOR, VETERANS OR SOCIAL SERVICES
 PROGRAMS  OR  PROVIDING  VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE  SERVICES. MONIES SHALL BE
 AVAILABLE TO THE REGIONAL COMMUNITY GRANT FUND BOARD, AS ESTABLISHED  BY
 SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   3.  EACH  COUNTY SHALL ESTABLISH A REGIONAL COMMUNITY GRANT FUND BOARD
 TO ADMINISTER THE FUNDS DIRECTED TO EACH COUNTY. APPOINTMENTS TO SUCH  A
 REGIONAL  COMMUNITY  GRANT  FUND  BOARD  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NEED NOT BE
 LIMITED TO, THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, ONE MEMBER OF  THE  ASSEMBLY  AND  ONE
 MEMBER OF THE SENATE REPRESENTING AN ELECTION DISTRICT IN WHICH ALL OR A
 PORTION  OF  THE RELEVANT COUNTY IS LOCATED, SUCH LEGISLATIVE MEMBERS TO
 BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR, AND SUCH OTHER MEMBERS AS  MAY  BE  DEEMED
 NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE.
   4.  EACH  REGIONAL  COMMUNITY  GRANT  FUND BOARD SHALL CREATE A DIRECT
 GRANT PROGRAM THAT WILL DISPERSE FUNDS TO  INDIVIDUAL  GROUPS  BASED  ON
 NEED.  THE  INDIVIDUAL  GRANTS  SHALL  BE AWARDED THROUGH AN APPLICATION
 PROCESS BASED ON CRITERIA CREATED BY  EACH  BOARD  CONSISTENT  WITH  THE
 PURPOSES  SET  FORTH IN THIS SECTION AND SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-
 ONE OF THE TAX LAW. THE FUNDING FOR  COMMUNITY  GROUPS,  THE  SOURCE  OF
 WHICH  IS THE COMMUNITY GROUPS ASSISTANCE LOTTERY GAME AS ESTABLISHED IN
 SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE TAX LAW, SHALL BE ALLOCATED TO
 EACH COUNTY IN PROPORTION TO THE NUMBER OF LOTTERY SALES THAT TOOK PLACE
 IN EACH COUNTY. THE FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN
 SUCH LOTTERY GAME SHALL BE APPLIED BASED UPON NEED.
   5. MONIES SHALL  BE  CREDITED  TOWARDS  THE  FUND  IN  FORM  OF  GIFT,
 DONATION, FEDERAL ASSISTANCE OR GRANT, TRANSFERS, PAYMENT, APPROPRIATION
 OR  BY A DEDICATED REVENUE SOURCE INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY GROUPS ASSIST-
 ANCE LOTTERY GAME AS ESTABLISHED IN SECTION SIXTEEN  HUNDRED  TWENTY-ONE
 OF THE TAX LAW.
   6.  MONIES  OF THE FUND SHALL NOT BE USED, TRANSFERRED OR APPROPRIATED
 FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN WHAT IS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, EXCEPT THAT
 SUCH MONIES MAY BE USED FOR MINIMAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH  ADMINISTERING
 EACH DIRECT GRANT PROGRAM.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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