S285-2011 Actions

• Mar 5, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Mar 1, 2012: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - WITHDRAWN
• Feb 21, 2012: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Jun 21, 2011: referred to ways and means
• Jun 21, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 21, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 21, 2011: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1429
• Jun 21, 2011: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• May 10, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Apr 11, 2011: PRINT NUMBER 285A
• Apr 11, 2011: AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
• Mar 22, 2011: DEFEATED IN INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
• Feb 22, 2011: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

S285-2011 Meetings

S285-2011 Votes

S285-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S285

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of lottery funds for any purpose other than
education

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Prohibits use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education
and prohibits co-mingling with funds for other purposes.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends section 1612 of Tax Law to add new subdivision (h).
Provides that no revenues collected pursuant to this article shall be
used for any purpose other than providing aid to all school children
and shall not be co-mingled with funds designated for any other
purpose.

Section 2: Amends section 92-c (3) of the Finance Law. Requires that
the moneys in such fund shall be appropriated or transferred only for
the repayment of the expenditures incurred in the operation of the
state lottery provided that no moneys in such fund shall be
appropriated or transferred for any purpose other than aid to school
children and shall not be co-mingled with funds designated for any
other purpose.

EXISTING LAW:
None.

JUSTIFICATION:
The lottery lockbox would ensure that lottery money is used for
education, as it was meant to be. The public wants the assurance that
lottery money that is coming for education is not going to be
siphoned off for other things.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2009-2010: S.3148 - Referred to Racing, Gaming and Wagering/A.4705 -
Held for Consideration in Ways and Means

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
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.

S285-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          285
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern
 ment Operations
 

AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
 prohibiting the use of lottery funds for any purpose other than educa
 tion
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.

Section 1612 of the tax law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision h to read as follows:

 H.  NO  REVENUES  COLLECTED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE USED FOR
 ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN PROVIDING AID TO ALL SCHOOL  CHILDREN  AND  SHALL
 NOT BE CO-MINGLED WITH FUNDS DESIGNATED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
 

S  2.  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
 (i) for repayment of first instance expenditures incurred in the  opera
 tion of the state lottery, PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT NO MONEYS IN SUCH FUND
 SHALL  BE APPROPRIATED OR TRANSFERRED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN PROVID
 ING AID TO ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN AND SHALL NOT BE  CO-MINGLED  WITH  FUNDS
 DESIGNATED  FOR  ANY  OTHER  PURPOSE,  (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, AND article forty  [and  subdivision  seventeen  of
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02584-01-1
 
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 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 providing 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-sev
 en, 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  paragraph  (i)  [hereof]  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION.
 

S  3.  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.

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