Senate Bill S6013A

                            
 
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                                  6013--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 26, 2021
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 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
   ing  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law  and
   the  tax  law,  in  relation  to  Suffolk and Nassau off-track betting
   corporations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 503 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breed-
 ing law is amended by adding a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
   10-A. IN THE SUFFOLK REGIONS, TO INSTALL AND OPERATE UP TO  TWO  THOU-
 SAND VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING TERMINALS AT A CORPORATION'S FACILITY WHICH IS
 LICENSED  PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE THOUSAND EIGHT OR ONE THOUSAND NINE OF
 THIS CHAPTER;
   § 2. Subdivision 14 of section 503 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering
 and breeding law, as added by section 3 of part SS of chapter 60 of  the
 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   14.  Nassau regional off-track betting is authorized to enter into and
 perform an agreement pursuant to paragraph  four  of  subdivision  a  of
 section  sixteen  hundred  seventeen-a  of the tax law to have UP TO TWO
 THOUSAND video lottery terminals authorized pursuant to paragraph  three
 of  subdivision  a of section sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law
 hosted within the Aqueduct video lottery terminal facility.
   § 3. The opening paragraph of subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph  1  of
 subdivision  b  of section 1612 of the tax law, as added by section 1 of
 part EE of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   less a vendor's fee the amount of which is to be paid for serving as a
 lottery agent to the track operator of a vendor track or the operator of
 any  other  video lottery gaming facility authorized pursuant to section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 sixteen hundred seventeen-a of this article; AND LESS VENDOR'S  FEES  TO
 BE PAID FOR SERVING AS A LOTTERY AGENT TO THE SUFFOLK REGIONAL OFF-TRACK
 BETTING  CORPORATIONS  OPERATORS  AT  AUTHORIZED PARTICIPATING OFF-TRACK
 BETTING  FACILITIES  LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  EITHER SECTION ONE THOUSAND
 EIGHT OR ONE THOUSAND NINE  OF  THE  RACING,  PARI-MUTUEL  WAGERING  AND
 BREEDING  LAW,  WHICH FEES SHALL BE AGGREGATED AND PAID IN EQUAL AMOUNTS
 TO THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.   The amount of  the  vendor's  fee  shall  be
 calculated as follows:
   § 4. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 1617-a of the tax law, as
 added  by  section  1  of  part SS of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (3) a maximum of two  facilities,  which  shall  be  vendors  for  all
 purposes  under  this  article[,  neither  to  exceed two thousand video
 lottery gaming devices,] established within region three of zone one  as
 defined  by  section one thousand three hundred ten of the racing, pari-
 mutuel wagering and breeding law, one each  operated  by  a  corporation
 established pursuant to section five hundred two of the racing, pari-mu-
 tuel  wagering  and  breeding  law  in the Suffolk region and the Nassau
 region to be located within a facility authorized pursuant  to  sections
 one  thousand  eight  or  one  thousand  nine of the racing, pari-mutuel
 wagering and breeding law, PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT IN THE  NASSAU  REGION
 SUCH FACILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO THOUSAND VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING DEVICES
 AND  IN  THE  SUFFOLK REGION SUCH FACILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO THOUSAND
 VIDEO LOTTERY GAMING DEVICES; and
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.