New York A 3204: Permits awarding of reasonable attorneys' fees, costs and exemplary damages in court actions for unlawful discriminatory practices pursuant to the human rights law

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A03204 Summary:

BILL NOA03204A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1612, Tax L

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Enacts the "emergency school relief act"; makes changes in the percentages for disposition of revenue from lottery prize account to increase the percentage directed to state aid for education funding.

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01/23/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

01/29/2026amend (t) and recommit to ways and means

01/29/2026print number 3204a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3204--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways
 and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to enacting the "emergency
 school relief act of 2026"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "emergency school relief act of 2026".
 3 § 2. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of subdivision a of section 1612 of the tax
 4 law, paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 174 of the laws of 2013 and para-
 5 graph 4 as amended by section 1 of part BB of chapter 59 of the laws of
 6 2021, are amended to read as follows:
 7 (3) [fifty-five] forty percent of the total amount for which tickets
 8 have been sold for any joint, multi-jurisdiction, and out-of-state
 9 lottery except as otherwise provided in paragraph one of subdivision b
 10 of this section for any joint, multi-jurisdiction, out-of-state video
 11 lottery gaming; or
 12 (4) [fifty] thirty-five percent of the total amount for which tickets
 13 have been sold for games known as: (A) the "Daily Numbers Game" or "Win
 14 4", discrete games in which the participants select no more than three
 15 or four of their own numbers to match with three or four numbers drawn
 16 by the commission for purposes of determining winners of such games, (B)
 17 "Pick 10", offered no more than twice daily, in which participants
 18 select from a specified field of numbers a subset of ten numbers to
 19 match against a subset of numbers to be drawn by the commission from
 20 such field of numbers for the purpose of determining winners of such
 21 game, (C) "Take 5", offered no more than twice daily, in which partic-
 22 ipants select from a specified field of numbers a subset of five numbers

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06210-02-6

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 1 to match against a subset of five numbers to be drawn by the commission
 2 from such field of numbers for purposes of determining winners of such
 3 game; or
 4 § 3. The opening paragraph of paragraph 1 of subdivision b of section
 5 1612 of the tax law, as amended by section 2 of subpart D of part DD of
 6 chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 7 Notwithstanding section one hundred twenty-one of the state finance
 8 law, on or before the twentieth day of each month, the commission shall
 9 pay into the state treasury, to the credit of the state lottery fund
 10 created by section ninety-two-c of the state finance law, not less than
 11 forty-five percent of the total amount for which tickets have been sold
 12 for games defined in paragraph five of subdivision a of this section
 13 during the preceding month, not less than [forty-five] sixty percent of
 14 the total amount for which tickets have [be] been sold for games defined
 15 in paragraph four of subdivision a of this section during the preceding
 16 month, not less than [thirty-five] fifty percent of the total amount for
 17 which tickets have been sold for games defined in paragraph three of
 18 subdivision a of this section during the preceding month, not less than
 19 twenty and three-f