Assembly Bill A5901

                             
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                                   5901
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Racing and Wagering
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  the  sharing  of
   revenue  from gaming devices located within the counties of Oneida and
   Madison
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as
 amended by section 8 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   3.  Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations
 enacted by the legislature, shall be available  for  purposes  including
 but  not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal govern-
 ments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a  tribal-state  compact  for
 costs  incurred  in connection with services provided to such casinos or
 arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities  and
 job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev-
 er,  that  for  any  gaming  facility  located  in the county of Erie or
 Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the  facility  shall  collec-
 tively  receive  a  minimum  of  twenty-five  percent  of the negotiated
 percentage of the net drop from  electronic  gaming  devices  the  state
 receives  pursuant  to  the  compact  and  provided further that for any
 gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus,  Chau-
 tauqua  or  Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the
 facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent  of
 the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices
 the  state  receives  pursuant to the compact; and provided further that
 pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of  the  laws  of  two  thousand
 four,  a  minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the
 state pursuant to the state's compact with the St.  Regis  Mohawk  tribe
 shall  be  made  available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence,

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09470-01-5
              

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 and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and  its  affected
 towns  shall  receive  fifty percent of the moneys made available by the
 state; and provided further that the state shall annually make  [twenty-
 five]  THIRTY  percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from
 all gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant  to  the  Oneida
 Settlement  Agreement  confirmed  by section eleven of the executive law
 available to the county of Oneida,  THIRTY  PERCENT  OF  THE  NEGOTIATED
 PERCENTAGE  OF  THE  NET DROP FROM ALL GAMING DEVICES LOCATED WITHIN THE
 COUNTY OF ONEIDA FOR WHICH THE STATE ACTUALLY RECEIVES PAYMENT,  TWENTY-
 FIVE  PERCENT  OF  THE  NEGOTIATED  PERCENTAGE  OF THE NET DROP FROM ALL
 GAMING DEVICES LOCATED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF MADISON FOR WHICH THE  STATE
 ACTUALLY  RECEIVES  PAYMENT  and  a  sum  of  three and one-half million
 dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall distrib-
 ute, for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional annu-
 al sum of two and one-half million dollars  to  the  county  of  Oneida.
 Additionally,  the  state  shall  distribute the one-time eleven million
 dollar payment actually received by the state  pursuant  to  the  Oneida
 Settlement  Agreement  to  the  county  of Madison by wire transfer upon
 receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) support  and  services  of
 treatment  programs  for  persons  suffering  from  gambling addictions.
 Moneys not segregated for such purposes  shall  be  transferred  to  the
 general  fund  for  the  support of government during the fiscal year in
 which they are received.
   § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2025 and shall  be  deemed  in
 full  force  and  effect on the date the state actually receives payment
 from gaming devices located in Oneida county and Madison county.