New York A 8050: Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities

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A08050 Summary:

BILL NOA08050B

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SAME ASSAME AS S07787-A

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SPONSORKay

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COSPNSRKelles, Lupardo, Gallahan, Friend

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1352, RWB L

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Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations.

Go to top A08050 Actions:

BILL NOA08050B

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04/22/2025referred to racing and wagering

06/13/2025reference changed to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

05/28/2026amend and recommit to ways and means

05/28/2026print number 8050a

06/02/2026amend and recommit to ways and means

06/02/2026print number 8050b

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8050--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KAY, KELLES, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, FRIEND -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Racing and Wagering -- reference
 changed 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 -- again reported from said commit-
 tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to
 said committee

 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
 relation to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming
 facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 1352 of the
 2 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law as added by section 1 of
 3 part R of chapter 58 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (b) (i) For any gaming facility that does not qualify under subdivi-
 5 sion two of section thirteen hundred twenty-one-a of this article, is
 6 licensed under title two-A of this article, and is located within New
 7 York City, revenues shall be distributed in the following manner, except
 8 as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph:
 9 [(i)] (1) fifty percent of the taxes imposed by this article, and any
 10 interest and penalties imposed by the commission relating to those taxes
 11 shall be deposited to a sole custody fund established under the gaming
 12 commission, and paid monthly, without appropriation, directly to the
 13 metropolitan transportation authority commercial gaming revenue fund
 14 established under section one thousand two hundred seventy-j of the
 15 public authorities law; and
 16 [(ii)] (2) fifty percent of the taxes imposed by this article, and any
 17 interest and penalties imposed by the commission relating to those taxes
 18 shall be deposited into the commercial gaming revenue fund established

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11477-08-6

 A. 8050--B 2

 1 under section ninety-seven-nnnn of the state finance law by the commis-
 2 sion and shall be appropriated or transferred only for elementary and
 3 secondary education or real property tax relief.
 4 (ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any host county
 5 and host municipality that was appropriated aid in the year two thousand
 6 twenty-five pursuant to paragraph b of subdivision three of section
 7 ninety-seven-nnnn of the state finance law and is located within one
 8 hundred miles of any gaming facility licensed under title two-A of this
 9 article, taxes collected from gaming facilities licensed under title
 10 two-A of this article shall be used by the commission, before the
 11 distributions otherwise required by clauses one and two of subparagraph
 12 (i) of this paragraph to hold such host counties and host municipalities
 13 harmless so that the host counties and host municipalities do not
 14 receive less money in any state fiscal year following the commencement
 15 of gaming operations of any g