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Senate Bill S8439

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes one percent of mobile sports tax revenue be used for problem gambling

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2023-S8439 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9082
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1367, RWB L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S2615

2023-S8439 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes one percent of mobile sports tax revenue, but not less than six million dollars, to be used for problem gambling.

2023-S8439 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8439 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8439
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
   ing
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
   relation to authorizing one percent of mobile sports  tax  revenue  be
   used for problem gambling

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 1367 of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
 wagering and breeding law, as added by section 3 of part Y of chapter 59
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   8. Notwithstanding section thirteen hundred fifty-one of this article,
 mobile  sports  wagering  gross  gaming revenue and tax revenue shall be
 excluded from sports wagering gross  gaming  revenue  and  tax  revenue.
 Mobile  sports  wagering  tax revenue shall be separately maintained and
 returned to the state for deposit into the state lottery fund for educa-
 tion aid except as otherwise provided in this subdivision. Any  interest
 and  penalties  imposed  by  the commission relating to those taxes, all
 penalties levied and collected by the commission,  and  the  appropriate
 funds,  cash or prizes forfeited from sports wagering shall be deposited
 into the state lottery fund for education. In the first fiscal  year  in
 which  mobile  sports  wagering licensees commence operations and accept
 mobile sports wagers pursuant to this section, the commission shall  pay
 into  the commercial gaming fund one percent of the state tax imposed on
 mobile sports wagering by this section to  be  distributed  for  problem
 gambling  education  and  treatment  purposes pursuant to paragraph a of
 subdivision four of section ninety-seven-nnnn of the state finance  law;
 provided  however,  that  such  amount  shall be equal to ONE PERCENT OF
 MOBILE SPORTS TAX REVENUE AND NO LESS THAN six million dollars for  each
 fiscal  year thereafter. In the first fiscal year in which mobile sports
 wagering licensees commence operations and accept mobile  sports  wagers
 pursuant  to  this  section, the commission shall pay one percent of the
 state tax imposed on mobile sports  wagering  by  this  section  to  the
 general fund, a program to be administered by the office of children and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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