NY State Senate Bill S511

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Jun 19, 2017	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1841
Jan 04, 2017	referred to rules

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S511 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1952
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §92-c, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S3148
2011-2012: S285, A9359
2013-2014: S383, A8868, A2147
2015-2016: S165, A5550

S511 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education and prohibits co-mingling with funds for other purposes.

S511 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 BILL NUMBER:  S511

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the state finance law, in relation
to prohibiting the use of lottery funds for any purpose other than
education

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

Prohibits use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education
and prohibits co-mingling with funds for other purposes.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1: Amends section 92-c (3) of the State Finance Law. Requires
that the moneys in the state lottery fund shall be appropriated or
transferred only for providing aid to elementary and secondary
education and for providing aid to pupils with special education needs
and to pupils with handicapping conditions, and for the purpose of
providing aid to all school children. Provides that such funds shall
not be co-mingled with funds designated for any other purpose except
under certain conditions.

Section 2: Effective Date

 EXISTING LAW :

None.

 JUSTIFICATION :

This legislation would require that lottery money is used fot
education, as it was meant to be. The public wants the assurance that
lottery money that is designated for education is not going to be
siphoned off for other things.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2014: S.383 - Passed Senate/A.2147 - Enacting Clause Stricken/A.8868
Referred to Ways and Means
2013: S.363 - Passed Senate/A.2147 - Referred to Ways and Means
2012: S.285-A - Passed Senate/A.9359 - Referred to Ways and Means
2011: S.285A - Passed Senate
2009-10: S.3148 - Referred to Racing, Gaming and Wagenng/A.4705 - Held
for consideration in Ways and Means

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law and shall apply to revenues collected as a result of the
New York State lottery for education occurring on or after such date.

S511 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                   511

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
  use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education

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

  Section 1.  Subdivision 3 of section 92-c of the state finance law, as
amended by chapter 913 of the laws  of  1977,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3.  The  moneys in such fund shall be appropriated or transferred only
FOR PROVIDING AID TO ELEMENTARY AND  SECONDARY  EDUCATION  AND  FOR  THE
PURPOSE  OF  PROVIDING  AID  TO PUPILS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS
DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH E OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED
TWO  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  AND  PUPILS  WITH HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS
RECEIVING STATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS DELINEATED IN PARAGRAPH F
OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED  TWO,  ARTICLE  EIGHTY-
THREE,  ARTICLE EIGHTY-FIVE, ARTICLE EIGHTY-SEVEN, ARTICLE EIGHTY-EIGHT,
ARTICLE EIGHTY-NINE, AND ARTICLE FORTY OF THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  AND  THE
PURPOSE  OF  PROVIDING  AID  TO  ALL  SCHOOL  CHILDREN  PURSUANT  TO THE
PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION; AND SHALL NOT BE CO-MIN-
GLED WITH FUNDS DESIGNATED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, EXCEPT (i) for  repay-
ment  of  first  instance  expenditures incurred in the operation of the
state lottery, AND (ii) [for the  state  fiscal  year  commencing  April
first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-six only for the purpose of providing
aid to pupils with special educational needs as defined in  paragraph  e
of  subdivision  one  of section thirty-six hundred two of the education
law, and pupils with handicapping conditions receiving  state  financial
support  for  programs  delineated  in paragraph f of subdivision one of
section thirty-six hundred two, article  eighty-three,  article  eighty-
five,  article  eighty-seven, article eighty-eight, article eighty-nine,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06633-01-7

S. 511                              2

article forty and subdivision seventeen of  section  thirty-six  hundred
two of the education law, and for any state fiscal year commencing after
such nineteen hundred seventy-six fiscal year for the purpose of provid-
ing aid to all school children pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
four  of  this  section,  (iii)  for elementary and secondary education,
(iv)] for expenditures for machines or other capital equipment which the
division of the lottery is authorized to purchase for the  operation  of
the  lottery[  and  (v) for payment in the state fiscal years commencing
April first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, nineteen  hundred  seventy-
eight and nineteen hundred seventy-nine into the winter sports education
trust  fund, as created in section four hundred ninety-five-a of article
ten-C of the education law, for the purposes of such fund in  accordance
with  the  provisions of subdivision five of this section. Payments into
such trust fund shall discontinue at such time as the sum of one hundred
million dollars, in the aggregate, has been paid into such fund or  upon
March  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty,  whichever event occurs
first]. Nothing herein shall prohibit the purchase of machines or  other
capital  equipment  from funds appropriated for expenditures under para-
graph (i) [hereof] OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
  § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have  become  a law and shall apply to revenues collected as a result of
the New York state lottery for education  occurring  on  or  after  such
date.

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S511 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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