HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 61        FILED ON: 1/4/2017

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1951

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Timothy R. Whelan

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act Amend Chapter 23K by adding after section 63, the following new section:.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Timothy R. Whelan

1st Barnstable

1/4/2017

William L. Crocker, Jr.

2nd Barnstable

1/23/2017

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

2/2/2017

Mathew Muratore

1st Plymouth

1/19/2017


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 61        FILED ON: 1/4/2017

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1951

By Mr. Whelan of Brewster, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1951) of Timothy R. Whelan and others relative to the distribution of funds to the Gaming Local Aid Fund and the Local Aid Stabilization Fund.  Ways and Means.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 3182 OF 2015-2016.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act Amend Chapter 23K by adding after section 63, the following new section:.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION _:  Beginning in the fifth year after the first year that the Gaming Local Aid Fund, created under section 63 of chapter 23K receives funds pursuant to chapter 59(e) of chapter 23K, in any year that the combination of funds in the Gaming Local Aid Fund and the Local Aid Stabilization Fund, created in Section 93 of this Act, totals more than $100,000,000, an amount of not more than $20,000,000 of the funds in the Local Aid Stabilization Fund shall be set aside to be added to the unrestricted local aid distributions to cities and towns that, through the normal distribution calculations, do not receive unrestricted local aid in an amount equal to at least ten percent of the revenues generated in such community for the Massachusetts State Lottery. If the amount so reserved is insufficient to bring all such communities up to ten percent of Lottery revenues generated, within such community then the reserved revenues shall be prorated among such communities to bring each as close to ten percent of revenues as possible. Regardless of the total combination of funds in the Gaming Local Aid Fund and the Local Aid Stabilization Fund, this section shall not apply in any year in which additional funds are added to the Gaming Local Aid Fund pursuant to section 59(f) of chapter 23K.