Assembly Bill A4472

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   4472
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Racing and Wagering
 
 AN  ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to directing revenue
   from certain mobile casino gaming activities to  be  used  for  school
   safety and security purposes

   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
 (i)  for repayment of first instance expenditures incurred in the opera-
 tion of the state lottery, (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 eight-
 y-nine, article forty and subdivision seventeen  of  section  thirty-six
 hundred two of the education law, and for any state fiscal year commenc-
 ing  after such nineteen hundred seventy-six fiscal year for the purpose
 of providing aid to all school children pursuant to  the  provisions  of
 subdivision  four  of  this  section, (iii) for elementary and secondary
 education, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, UPON THE AUTHORIZATION AND LEGALIZATION OF
 INTERACTIVE GAMING, INCLUDING ANY INTERNET-BASED VERSION OR  SUBSTANTIAL
 EQUIVALENT  OF  A  TABLE GAME, SLOT MACHINE CONSTITUTING SPINNING REELS,
 POKER TOURNAMENT, OR ANY OTHER GAME AS SET FORTH  IN  SUBDIVISION  FOUR,
 NINETEEN,  THIRTY-EIGHT,  THIRTY-NINE  OR  FORTY-ONE OF SECTION THIRTEEN
 HUNDRED ONE OF THE RACING, PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING AND  BREEDING  LAW,  AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08302-01-5
              

 A. 4472                             2
 
 APPROVED BY THE GAMING COMMISSION AND WHICH IS ACCESSED BY A COMPUTER OR
 MOBILE  DEVICE  WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET, AT LEAST TEN MILLION
 DOLLARS OR ONE PERCENT, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, OF SUCH REVENUES SHALL  BE
 USED  FOR ANY EXPENSES RELATED TO SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY PURPOSES AS
 DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF 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 paragraph (i)
 hereof.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.