New York A 5901: Provides for the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the counties of Oneida and Madison

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A05901 Summary:

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Provides for the sharing of thirty percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Oneida; provides for the sharing of twenty-five percent of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.

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02/24/2025referred to racing and wagering

01/07/2026referred to racing and wagering

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5901

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as
 2 amended by section 8 of chapter 174 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations
 5 enacted by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including
 6 but not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal govern-
 7 ments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact for
 8 costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos or
 9 arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities and
 10 job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided, howev-
 11 er, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or
 12 Niagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall collec-
 13 tively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated
 14 percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state
 15 receives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any
 16 gaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus, Chau-
 17 tauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting the
 18 facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of
 19 the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices
 20 the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further that
 21 pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand
 22 four, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the
 23 state pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe
 24 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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 1 and affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected
 2 towns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the
 3 state; and provided further that the state shall annually make [twenty-
 4 five] thirty percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from
 5 all gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant to the Oneida
 6 Settlement Agreement confirmed by section eleven of the executive law
 7 available to the county of Oneida, thirty percent of the negotiated
 8 percentage of the net drop from all gaming devices located within the
 9 county of Oneida for which the state actually receives payment, twenty-
 10 five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from all
 11 gaming devices located within the county of Madison for which the state
 12 actually receives payment and a sum of three and one-half million
 13 dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall distrib-
 14 ute, for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an additional annu-
 15 al sum of two and one-half million dollars to the county of Oneida.
 16 Additionally, the state shall distribute the one-time eleven million
 17 dollar payment actually received by the state pursuant to the Oneida
 18 Settlement Agreement to the co