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Assembly Bill A1052

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools

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2025-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §54-l, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3276

2025-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools; authorizes such school district in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to receive payments to increase support for public schools.

2025-A1052 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1052
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing the
   Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to
   video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public
   schools

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 and paragraph b of subdivision
 3  of  section  54-l  of the state finance law, as added by section 1 of
 part J of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2011,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   b.  "Eligible municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village
 in which a video lottery gaming facility is located pursuant to  section
 sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law that is not located in a city
 with a population equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-five thou-
 sand. BEGINNING APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, "ELIGIBLE MUNICI-
 PALITY"  SHALL  ALSO  INCLUDE THE HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE
 TOWN OF HAMBURG, COUNTY OF ERIE.
   b. State aid payments made to an  eligible  municipality  pursuant  to
 paragraph  b  of  subdivision  two of this section shall be used by such
 eligible municipality to: (i) defray local costs associated with a video
 lottery gaming facility, or (ii) minimize or reduce real property taxes,
 OR (III) FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  MUNICIPALITY  THAT  IS  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,
 INCREASE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SUCH DISTRICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01165-01-5

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