New York A 8394: Provides for amendments to a tribal-state compact with the Seneca Nation of Indians

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A08394 Summary:

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Provides for amendments to a tribal-state compact with the Seneca Nation of Indians.

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BILL NOA08394 

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05/13/2025referred to ways and means

05/20/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8394

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to amendments to a
 tribal-state compact with the Seneca Nation of Indians

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The state legislature finds that the
 2 state continues to have a significant interest in ensuring that any
 3 tribal-state compact is consistent with, to the fullest extent possible,
 4 certain state laws, including, but not limited to, the labor law, the
 5 workers' compensation law, and the human rights law. These laws provide
 6 for the granting of benefits, rights and privileges which improve the
 7 economic quality of life and personal safety of persons who will be
 8 employed within a gaming facility either by the Nation or by any person,
 9 corporation, firm or entity engaged by the Nation, to operate, adminis-
 10 ter or manage the gaming facility. Moreover, the legislature finds that
 11 gaming should be conducted in a manner that adequately protects the
 12 environment and the public health and safety, which is a stated require-
 13 ment for the conduct of class III gaming activities pursuant to the
 14 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
 15 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 12 of the executive law, as amended by
 16 section 9 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
 17 read as follows:
 18 (a) (i) Notwithstanding any other law, the state, through the gover-
 19 nor, may execute a tribal-state compact with the Seneca Nation of Indi-
 20 ans pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-497;
 21 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2721 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 1166-1168) consistent with a
 22 memorandum of understanding between the governor and the president of
 23 the Seneca Nation of Indians executed on June twentieth, two thousand
 24 one and filed with the department of state on June twenty-first, two
 25 thousand one. Such tribal-state compact shall be deemed ratified by the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11886-01-5

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 1 legislature upon the governor's certification to the temporary president
 2 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the secretary of state,
 3 that such compact, through its terms, by a memorandum of understanding
 4 or other agreement between the state and Nation, by a Nation's ordinance
 5 or resolution, by statute, by executive order, or by the terms of any
 6 other agreement entered into by or on behalf of the Nation, provides:
 7 [(i)] (1) assurances that the Nation will provide [(1)] (A) reasonable
 8 access to the gaming and related facilities to labor union organizers
 9 for purposes of a campaign to solicit employee support for labor union
 10 representation; [(2)] (B) permission for labor union organizers to
 11 distribute labor union authorization cards on site for the purpose of
 12 soliciting employee support for labor union representation; and [(3)]
 13 (C) recognition of labor unions as the exclusive collective bargaining
 14 representatives of employees in appropriate bargaining units based upon
 15 a demonstration of majority employee support of such labor unions by
 16 union authorization card check as verified, if necessary, by an inde-
 17 pendent arbitrator appointed by the Public Employment Relations Board in
 18 consultation with the Nation and the labor union; [(ii)] (2) assurances
 19 that the Nation has an adequate civil recovery system