The governor’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that will begin April 1 envisions nearly $500 million in revenues from extending gambling. Other ideas on the table also could dramatically expand the number of places in the state to place bets.
As the state turned to a big gambling expansion following an economic downturn and the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, Paterson is eyeing all sorts of ways for gamblers to open their wallets and the state to pick up the resulting revenues from gambling.
In the proposed budget released last week, Paterson calls for eliminating restrictions for the Lottery’s Quick Draw game — an electronic keno game.
Under the proposal, Quick Draw, now in 3,200 establishments and limited to 13 hours a day, could be played around the clock. Paterson also called for removing the provision restricting the game to establishments licensed to sell alcohol but drawing at least 25 percent of sales from food.
The governor also wants to lower the age restriction — now 21 — to allow 18-year-olds to play.
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Those changes alone would bring the state an additional $50 million next year and $59 million annually after that.
Paterson also wants to drop restrictions requiring racetrack casinos to operate no more than 16 hours a day and to shut down at 2 a.m.
That would allow casinos -- located in hamlets like Hamburg and Batavia -- to stay open 24 hours a day, bringing the state an additional $45 million next year from its share of the bets. The requirement that the law allowing such casinos expire in 2017 also would be eliminated.
The governor wants to permit New York to join another multistate lottery game and possibly an international high-stakes game, which would bring an additional $11 million.
The governor also calls for allowing Belmont Park, a racetrack on Long Island, to have a casino with up to 5,000 slot machines. The state would receive at least $370 million for the casino development rights.
While they are not in his budget, the governor also has signaled openness to offering new electronic table games — such as roulette, baccarat, craps, and blackjack — alongside slot machine-like devices now at eight racetracks. State politicians, meanwhile, are pushing a constitutional amendment to permit three non-Indian casinos in the Catskills.
The governor’s plan would let the state’s Lottery Division engage in a little Wall Street gambling. The agency maintains a fund of about $1.2 billion that pays lottery winners.
“We believe that there is room for responsible growth in the gaming industry to help the state manage its fiscal difficulties. That said, we recognize the need to continue to address the issue of problem gambling through targeted initiatives,” said Matt Anderson, a budget division spokesman.
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