§ 99-H — Tribal-state compact revenue account

New York § 99-H

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law STF: State Finance
• Art. 6: Funds of the State

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* § 99-h. Tribal-state compact revenue account. 1. There is hereby\nestablished in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner\nof taxation and finance an account in the miscellaneous special revenue\nfund to be known as the "tribal-state compact revenue account".\n 2. Such account shall consist of all revenues resulting from\ntribal-state compacts executed pursuant to article two of the executive\nlaw, a tribal-state compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe executed\npursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand four\nand the Oneida Settlement Agreement referenced in section eleven of the\nexecutive law.\n 3. Moneys of the account, following the segregation of appropriations\nenacted by the legislature, shall be available for purposes including\nbut not limited to: (a) reimbursements or payments to municipal\ngovernments that host tribal casinos pursuant to a tribal-state compact\nfor costs incurred in connection with services provided to such casinos\nor arising as a result thereof, for economic development opportunities\nand job expansion programs authorized by the executive law; provided,\nhowever, that for any gaming facility located in the county of Erie or\nNiagara, the municipal governments hosting the facility shall\ncollectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent of the negotiated\npercentage of the net drop from electronic gaming devices the state\nreceives pursuant to the compact and provided further that for any\ngaming facility located in the county or counties of Cattaraugus,\nChautauqua or Allegany, the municipal governments of the state hosting\nthe facility shall collectively receive a minimum of twenty-five percent\nof the negotiated percentage of the net drop from electronic gaming\ndevices the state receives pursuant to the compact; and provided further\nthat pursuant to chapter five hundred ninety of the laws of two thousand\nfour, a minimum of twenty-five percent of the revenues received by the\nstate pursuant to the state's compact with the St. Regis Mohawk tribe\nshall be made available to the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence,\nand affected towns in such counties. Each such county and its affected\ntowns shall receive fifty percent of the moneys made available by the\nstate; and provided further that the state shall annually make\ntwenty-five percent of the negotiated percentage of the net drop from\nall gaming devices the state actually receives pursuant to the Oneida\nSettlement Agreement confirmed by section eleven of the executive law\navailable to the county of Oneida, and a sum of three and one-half\nmillion dollars to the county of Madison. Additionally, the state shall\ndistribute, for a period of nineteen and one-quarter years, an\nadditional annual sum of two and one-half million dollars to the county\nof Oneida. Additionally, the state shall distribute the one-time eleven\nmillion dollar payment actually received by the state pursuant to the\nOneida Settlement Agreement to the county of Madison by wire transfer\nupon receipt of such payment by the state; and (b) support and services\nof treatment programs for persons suffering from gambling addictions.\nMoneys not segregated for such purposes shall be transferred to the\ngeneral fund for the support of government during the fiscal year in\nwhich they are received.\n 3-a. Ten percent of any of the funds actually received by the state\npursuant to the tribal-state compacts and agreements described in\nsubdivision two of this section prior to the transfer of unsegregated\nmoneys to the general fund required by such subdivision, shall be\ndistributed to counties in each respective exclusivity zone provided\nthey do not otherwise receive a share of said revenues pursuant to this\nsection. Such distribution shall be made among such counties on a per\ncapita basis, excluding the population of any municipality that receives\na distribution pursuant to subdivision three of this section.\n * NB There are 2 § 99-h's\n