130th Ohio General Assembly
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S. B. No. 251  As Introduced
As Introduced

130th General Assembly
Regular Session
2013-2014
S. B. No. 251


Senator Patton 



A BILL
To amend Section 10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 386 of the 129th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to make changes to the second payment from the Casino Operator Settlement Fund to certain local government entities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That Section 10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 386 of the 129th General Assembly, as most recently amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 10.  As used in this section, "commercial racetrack" has the same meaning as "track" as found in Sections 3 and 7 of Am. Sub. H.B. 386 of the 129th General Assembly.
To the extent that sufficient cash is available, within three months after the receipt of moneys into the Casino Operator Settlement Fund created in section 3772.34 of the Revised Code, the Director of Budget and Management shall pay one million dollars to the municipal corporation or township in which greater than fifty per cent of the real property of a commercial racetrack was located on June 11, 2012, or a municipal corporation or township to which greater than fifty per cent of the real property of a commercial racetrack is to relocate, but excluding the previous municipal corporation or township of each moved or moving commercial racetrack, and excluding a municipal corporation or township in a county with a population between 1,100,000 and 1,200,000 in the most recent federal decennial census. Additionally, within six months after the first payments made under this section, the Director of Budget and Management shall either pay an additional one million dollars to each of these municipal corporations and townships or, if the real property of such a commercial racetrack is in more than one municipal corporation or township, pay the additional one million dollars to those municipal corporations or townships in proportion to the amount of real property in each municipal corporation or township. Not more than six municipal corporations or townships shall be eligible for the payments under this section. The determination of which six municipal corporations or townships are eligible to receive payments under this section shall be made solely by the Director of Budget and Management. Each municipal corporation or township receiving such a payment shall use at least fifty per cent of the funds received for infrastructure or capital improvements. If after either of the payments referenced in this section, a municipal corporation or township loses a commercial racetrack as a result of the commercial racetrack permit holder's decision to relocate to another municipal corporation or township, the municipal corporation or township losing the commercial racetrack becomes eligible for a payment from the Racetrack Facility Community Economic Redevelopment Fund provided for in Sections 7 and 8 of H.B. 386 of the 129th General Assembly after all of the communities that have already lost a racetrack permit holder's commercial racetrack at the time the first payments referenced in this section are made have each been awarded up to $3 million for the initial loss of such commercial racetracks. Such a municipal corporation or township shall not receive more than the sum of $3 million minus any payments made by the Director of Budget and Management in accordance with this section. The Director of Budget and Management is also authorized to establish any necessary appropriation items in the appropriate funds and agencies in order to make any payments required under this section. Any funds in such items are hereby appropriated.
Section 2. That existing Section 10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 386 of the 129th General Assembly, as most recently amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
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