S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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511
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to prohibiting the
use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 92-c of the state finance law, as
amended by chapter 913 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
follows:
3. The moneys in such fund shall be appropriated or transferred only
FOR PROVIDING AID TO ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AND FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AID TO PUPILS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS
DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH E OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW, AND PUPILS WITH HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS
RECEIVING STATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS DELINEATED IN PARAGRAPH F
OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO, ARTICLE EIGHTY-
THREE, ARTICLE EIGHTY-FIVE, ARTICLE EIGHTY-SEVEN, ARTICLE EIGHTY-EIGHT,
ARTICLE EIGHTY-NINE, AND ARTICLE FORTY OF THE EDUCATION LAW, AND THE
PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AID TO ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN PURSUANT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION; AND SHALL NOT BE CO-MIN-
GLED WITH FUNDS DESIGNATED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, EXCEPT (i) for repay-
ment of first instance expenditures incurred in the operation of the
state lottery, AND (ii) [for the state fiscal year commencing April
first, nineteen hundred seventy-six only for the purpose of providing
aid to pupils with special educational needs as defined in paragraph e
of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of the education
law, and pupils with handicapping conditions receiving state financial
support for programs delineated in paragraph f of subdivision one of
section thirty-six hundred two, article eighty-three, article eighty-
five, article eighty-seven, article eighty-eight, article eighty-nine,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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article forty and subdivision seventeen of section thirty-six hundred
two of the education law, and for any state fiscal year commencing after
such nineteen hundred seventy-six fiscal year for the purpose of provid-
ing aid to all school children pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
four of this section, (iii) for elementary and secondary education,
(iv)] for expenditures for machines or other capital equipment which the
division of the lottery is authorized to purchase for the operation of
the lottery[ and (v) for payment in the state fiscal years commencing
April first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, nineteen hundred seventy-
eight and nineteen hundred seventy-nine into the winter sports education
trust fund, as created in section four hundred ninety-five-a of article
ten-C of the education law, for the purposes of such fund in accordance
with the provisions of subdivision five of this section. Payments into
such trust fund shall discontinue at such time as the sum of one hundred
million dollars, in the aggregate, has been paid into such fund or upon
March thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty, whichever event occurs
first]. Nothing herein shall prohibit the purchase of machines or other
capital equipment from funds appropriated for expenditures under para-
graph (i) [hereof] OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law and shall apply to revenues collected as a result of
the New York state lottery for education occurring on or after such
date.
