What's happening
This bill expands video lottery games, changes operating hours and requires labor peace agreements.
Why it matters
Gaming options. Requires state gaming regulations to authorize video lottery versions of electronic table games generating random results, including roulette, baccarat, poker and twenty-one.
Operating schedules. Replaces the daily 20-hour limit and 6 a.m. cutoff with weekly limits. Tracks must operate at least 112 hours weekly, with maximums of 128 or 140 hours depending on machine count; daily schedules require director approval.
Labor requirements. Requires enforceable agreements barring picketing, work stoppages, boycotts and other economic interference. Coverage varies by facility, and Buffalo Raceway/Fairgrounds in Erie County is exempt.
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Who cares
Video lottery track operators
They would gain electronic table game options while facing revised operating schedules and labor agreement requirements.
Video lottery and hospitality unions
Covered operators would need agreements with unions representing or seeking to represent these workers, restricting economic pressure against facilities.
Electronic table game attendants and dealers
At existing racetracks adding attendant- or dealer-operated electronic table games, labor agreement coverage would be limited to those workers.
State gaming regulators
They would need to authorize electronic table games, approve operating schedules and ensure compliance with labor agreement requirements.
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Expand Video Lottery Games
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4710
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of video lottery gaming
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions e and f of section 1617-a of the tax law, as amended by section 1 of part SS of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, are amended and a new subdivision f-1 is added to read as follows:
e. Video lottery gaming shall [only] be permitted for [no more than twenty consecutive hours per day and on no day shall such operation be conducted past 6:00 a.m.] a vendor track having fewer than one thousand five hundred seventy-five video gaming machines operated daily for a maximum of one hundred twenty-eight hours per week and a minimum of one hundred twelve hours per week, and for a vendor track having one thousand five hundred seventy-five or more video gaming machines operated daily for a maximum of one hundred forty hours per week and a minimum of one hundred twelve hours per week, with the actual daily hours of operation set by each vendor track and approved by the director.
f. The gaming commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of video lottery gaming in accordance with the provisions of this section [and paragraph five of subdivision a of section sixteen hundred twelve of this article]. Such rules and regulations shall provide for, but not be limited to, authorization of video lottery versions of any electronic table game capable of generating random results such as roulette, baccarat, poker and "twenty-one".
f-1. The division, in consultation with the racing and wagering board, shall ensure that:
(1) all entities licensed by the division to operate video lottery gaming have entered into a labor peace agreement, as set forth below,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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with each labor organization that is actively engaged in representing or attempting to represent video lottery and hospitality industry workers in the state;
(2) the labor peace agreement is valid and enforceable under 29 U.S.C. Section 185;
(3) the labor peace agreement protects the state's revenues by prohibiting the labor organization and its members from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, and any other economic interference with the operation of the video lottery facility; and
(4) if a racetrack facility existing as of the effective date of this subdivision adds video lottery electronic table games and such video lottery electronic table games, in the sole discretion of the video lottery agent, are operated by an attendant or a dealer, such labor peace agreement need only apply to such attendants and dealers of electronic table games at such facility, whether or not such video lottery operations are conducted by a lessee or tenant or under a management agreement. For all other facilities, the labor peace agreement applies to all operations at a facility with video lottery capabilities, whether or not such operations are conducted by a lessee or tenant or under a management agreement. The foregoing labor peace provisions shall not apply to the Buffalo Raceway/Fairgrounds in Erie county.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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