Senate Bill S1226

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1226

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 28, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sens.  THOMPSON, AUBERTINE, STACHOWSKI -- read twice and
  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
  Finance

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  state  finance law, in relation to Tribal-state
  compact revenue accounts

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as
amended by chapter 747 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3.  Moneys of the account, following appropriation by the legislature,
shall be available for  purposes  including  but  not  limited  to:  (a)
reimbursements  or  payments  to  municipal governments that host tribal
casinos pursuant  to  a  tribal-state  compact  for  costs  incurred  in
connection with services provided to such casinos or arising as a result
thereof,  for  economic  development  opportunities  and  job  expansion
programs authorized by the executive law; provided,  however,  that  for
any  gaming facility located in the CITY OF BUFFALO, county of Erie, the
[municipal governments hosting the  facility]  CITY  OF  BUFFALO,  shall
[collectively]  receive  a minimum of [twenty-five] SEVENTY-FIVE percent
of the negotiated percentage of the  net  drop  from  electronic  gaming
devices the state receives pursuant to the compact, and provided further
that for any gaming facility located in the city of Niagara Falls, coun-
ty  of  Niagara  a  minimum of [twenty-five] SEVENTY-FIVE percent of the
negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the
state receives pursuant to the compact shall be distributed  in  accord-
ance  with  subdivision  four of this section, and provided further that
for any gaming facility located in the county or counties  of  Cattarau-
gus,  Chautauqua  or  Allegany,  the  municipal governments of the state
hosting the facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five
percent of the negotiated percentage of the  net  drop  from  electronic

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01090-01-9
              

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gaming  devices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided
further that pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of  two
thousand four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received
by  the  state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk
tribe shall be made available  to  the  counties  of  Franklin  and  St.
Lawrence,  and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its
affected towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made  available
by  the  state;  and  (b) support and services of treatment programs for
persons suffering from gambling addictions.  Moneys not appropriated for
such purposes shall be transferred to the general fund for  the  support
of government during the fiscal year in which they are received.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the amendments to subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law
made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of  such
section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.