Senate Bill S7015

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to including video lottery gaming in certain gambling offenses

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2021-S7015 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7720
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§225.00, 225.55, 225.65, 225.70, 225.75, 225.85 & 225.90, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7453

2021-S7015 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes video lottery gaming in certain gambling offenses.

2021-S7015 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7015 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7015
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 24, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- (at request of the New York State Gaming
   Commission) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
   committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to including video lottery
   gaming in certain gambling offenses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 13, 22 and 27 of section 225.00 of the penal
 law, as added by chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as
 follows:
   13. "Authorized gaming establishment" means any  structure,  structure
 and  adjacent  or attached structure, or grounds adjacent to a structure
 in which casino gaming, conducted pursuant to article  thirteen  of  the
 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, [or] Class III gaming, as
 authorized  pursuant  to a compact reached between the state of New York
 and a federally recognized Indian nation  or  tribe  under  the  federal
 Indian  Gaming  Regulatory  Act  of  1988,  OR  VIDEO  LOTTERY GAMING is
 conducted and shall include all public and non-public areas of any  such
 building, except for such areas of a building where either Class I or II
 gaming  are  conducted  or any building or grounds [known as] OTHER THAN
 THE GAMING FLOOR OR GAMING OPERATIONS AT a  video  gaming  entertainment
 facility,  including facilities where food and drink are served, as well
 as those areas not normally open to the public, such  as  where  records
 related  to  video  lottery gaming operations are kept, except shall not
 include the racetracks or such areas where  such  video  lottery  gaming
 operations  or  facilities do not take place or exist, such as racetrack
 areas or fairgrounds [which] THAT are wholly unrelated to video  lottery
 gaming  operations, pursuant to section sixteen hundred seventeen-a [and
 paragraph five of subdivision a of section sixteen  hundred  twelve]  of
 the tax law, as amended and implemented.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09573-01-1

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