NY State Senate Bill 2023-S5800

Senate Bill S5800

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to finance
Mar 16, 2023	referred to finance

2023-S5800 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3276
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §54-l, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:: A1052

2023-S5800 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools; authorizes such school district in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to receive payments to increase support for public schools.

2023-S5800 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5800

SPONSOR: GALLIVAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing the
Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to
video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public
schools

 
PURPOSE:

This bill establishes parity with all other school districts in New
York, where video lottery gaming facilities are situated within such
districts' boundaries, by authorizing the Hamburg Central School
District in Erie County to secure state aid payments from the applicable
video lottery gaming facility to increase support for public schools.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends the State Finance law governing State assistance to
eligible cities and eligible municipalities in which a video lottery

gaming facility is located, to include the Hamburg Central School
District as an eligible municipality.

Section 2 establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Video lottery gaming facilities were first established by an act of the
State legislature in 2001 to generate, in part, additional financial
support for education. Since that time, ten video lottery gaming facili-
ties have been licensed throughout New York State, including Hamburg
Gaming at Buffalo Raceway. Of these ten facilities, all but for one
provides additional financial support to their local school district(s),
and all are required by law to share revenue with their local govern-
ments (county, town, city and village).

This bill is necessary to correct an error where the relevant school
district did not receive said financial support, inconsistent with that
afforded to the other school districts where such gaming facilities are
located.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S5800 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5800
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
   Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to
   video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public
   schools

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 and paragraph b of subdivision
 3 of section 54-l of the state finance law, as added  by  section  1  of
 part  J  of  chapter  57  of  the  laws  of 2011, are amended to read as
 follows:
   b. "Eligible municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or  village
 in  which a video lottery gaming facility is located pursuant to section
 sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law that is not located in a city
 with a population equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-five thou-
 sand. BEGINNING APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, "ELIGIBLE  MUNI-
 CIPALITY"  SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE
 TOWN OF HAMBURG, COUNTY OF ERIE.
   b. State aid payments made to an  eligible  municipality  pursuant  to
 paragraph  b  of  subdivision  two of this section shall be used by such
 eligible municipality to: (i) defray local costs associated with a video
 lottery gaming facility, or (ii) minimize or reduce real property taxes,
 OR (III) FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  MUNICIPALITY  THAT  IS  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,
 INCREASE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SUCH DISTRICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06965-01-3

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