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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to finance
- Referred to finance
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Provides for a plan of expenditure for monies appropriated and received by the state on behalf of a gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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Title of bill
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to the tribal-state compact revenue account; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
Purpose
Provides for a plan of expenditure for monies appropriated and received by the state on behalf of a gaming facility located in the City of Buffalo.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 747 of the laws of 2006 to provide that twenty five percent of the net drop from electronic gaming devices from any gaming facility located in the City of Buffalo shall be distributed in accordance with subdivision five of this section.
Section 2 amends subdivision 3 of section 99-h of the state finance law, as amended by section 1 of part V of chapter 59 of the laws of 2006 to clarify that the municipal government entitled to receive the minimum twenty five percent of the state share of the tribal-state compact electronic gaming device revenues is to be the City of Buffalo.
Section 3 amends section 99-h of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 747 of the laws of 2006, by adding a new subdivision 5 by specifying that the City of Buffalo will retain 96.5% of the total annual amount received, and 3.5% will be allocated for the development, preservation and expansion of cultural institutions or the development and preservation of tourism resources.
Existing law
Current law does not specify the "host community" entitled to the revenues provided for in the tribal-state compact.
Justification
According to the agreement between the Seneca Nation of the Indians and the City of Buffalo, the city agreed to provide sewer, water and emergency services to the proposed Buffalo Creek Casino. That agreement acknowledged the intention of the Seneca Nation that the city be designated as the sole host municipality, bolstering the fact that the County of Erie was neither a party nor a signatory to the agreement.
The county has also previously expressed its' opposition to such a facility, repeatedly demonstrating such opposition to the construction and operation of a casino on the Buffalo Creek Casino site by participating in three separate lawsuits. The county's efforts in this regard have led city government to spend approximately $400,000 to fight these lawsuits, a fact which should preclude county government from any effort to obtain revenues as a "host community" under existing statute.
Legislative history
New Bill- 2008. Referred to Finance.
Fiscal implications
None to New York State.
Local fiscal implications
Positive for the City of Buffalo
Effective date
Immediately.
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