S491-2011 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Increases the maximum bingo prize awards in a single game and single bingo occasions

Bill S491-2011

Increases the maximum bingo prize awards in a single game and single bingo occasions

Increases the maximum bingo prize awards in a single game and on single bingo occasions.

Details

Same as: A7947-2011
Versions S491-2011
Sponsor:ROBACH
Committee: RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING
Law Section: General Municipal Law
Law: Amd §479, Gen Muni L

Actions

Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING
Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING

Memo

BILL NUMBER:S491

TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the maximum prize awards allowed in bingo games

PURPOSE: Raise minimum limits on bingo games run by charitable organizations.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Increases maximum bingo prize from $1,000.00 to $3,000.00 and aggregate total prize from $3,000.00 to $6,000.00.

JUSTIFICATION: In these times of fiscal restraint not for profit organizations and charitable organizations need alternative methods of fundraising. Increasing the bingo prizes will enable those organizations to make more money from bingo by charging more based upon the larger prize award.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2003-2004 - S.3902 Referred to Racing and Wagering 2007 - S.2024 Passed Senate 2008 - S.2024 Passed Senate 2009 - S.412 Referred to Racing and Wagering

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.

Text


STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________

491

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

(PREFILED)

January 5, 2011
___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
  ing

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
  maximum prize awards allowed in bingo games

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 479 of the general  munici-
pal  law,  as amended by chapter 328 of the laws of 1994, are amended to
read as follows:
  5. No prize shall exceed the sum or  value  of  [one]  THREE  thousand
dollars in any single game of bingo.
  6.  No series of prizes on any one bingo occasion shall aggregate more
than [three] SIX thousand dollars.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01923-01-1

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