A8050 • 2025

Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Paula Kay
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities

Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations.

What This Bill Does

Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-06-02 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8050B
2026-05-28 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-05-28 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8050A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2025-06-13 Assembly
REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2025-04-22 Assembly
REFERRED TO RACING AND WAGERING

Official Summary Text

Relates to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities
Provides that host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming facilities receive no reduction in appropriated aid after gaming facilities licensed under title two-A of article 13 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law have commenced gaming operations.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8050

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 22, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Racing and Wagering

        AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
          relation to host counties and host municipalities of commercial gaming
          facilities

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 1352 of the racing, pari-mutuel
     2  wagering and breeding law is amended by adding a new  paragraph  (g)  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (G)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, FOR ANY HOST COUNTY
     5  AND HOST MUNICIPALITY THAT WAS APPROPRIATED AID IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND
     6  TWENTY-FIVE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH B  OF  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  SECTION
     7  NINETY-SEVEN-NNNN  OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, TAXES COLLECTED FROM GAMING
     8  FACILITIES LICENSED UNDER TITLE TWO-A OF THIS  ARTICLE  MUST  HOLD  SUCH
     9  HOST COUNTIES AND HOST MUNICIPALITIES HARMLESS SO THAT THE HOST COUNTIES
    10  AND  HOST  MUNICIPALITIES  DO NOT RECEIVE LESS MONEY IN ANY STATE FISCAL
    11  YEAR FOLLOWING THE COMMENCEMENT  OF  GAMING  OPERATIONS  OF  ANY  GAMING
    12  FACILITY LICENSED UNDER TITLE TWO-A OF THIS ARTICLE THAN SUCH HOST COUN-
    13  TIES  OR HOST MUNICIPALITIES RECEIVED IN THEIR HIGHEST ANNUAL AID IN ANY
    14  YEAR SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF GAMING OPERATIONS FROM ANY GAMING FACILI-
    15  TY LICENSED PURSUANT TO TITLE TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.   THE  PROVISIONS  OF
    16  THIS  PARAGRAPH  SHALL  APPLY  AS OF THE FIRST FULL STATE FISCAL YEAR IN
    17  WHICH ANY GAMING FACILITY LICENSED UNDER TITLE TWO-A OF THIS ARTICLE HAS
    18  COMMENCED GAMING OPERATIONS.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11477-03-5