1Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2Statutes, further providing for Category 1 slot machine
3license, for Category 2 slot machine license and for Category
43 slot machine license.

5The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6hereby enacts as follows:

7Section 1. Sections 1302(b), 1304(b) and 1305(b) of Title 4
8of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

9§ 1302. Category 1 slot machine license.

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11(b) Location.--A Category 1 license may only be issued to an
12eligible person authorizing slot machine operations at the
13particular licensed racetrack facility identified in the
14application. No Category 1 licensed facility shall be located
15within 20 linear miles of another Category 1 licensed facility
16or within ten linear miles of the boundary of a national 
17military park or a national memorial designated by the Congress 
18of the United States after September 11, 2001.

1§ 1304. Category 2 slot machine license.

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3(b) Location.--

4(1) Two Category 2 licensed facilities and no more shall
5be located by the board within a city of the first class, and
6one Category 2 licensed facility and no more shall be located
7by the board within a city of the second class. No Category 2
8licensed facility located by the board within a city of the
9first class shall be within ten linear miles of a Category 1
10licensed facility regardless of the municipality where the
11Category 1 licensed facility is located. Except for any
12Category 2 licensed facility located by the board within a
13city of the first class or a city of the second class, no
14Category 2 licensed facility shall be located within 30
15linear miles of any Category 1 licensed facility that has
16conducted over 200 racing days per year for the two calendar
17years immediately preceding the effective date of this part
18and not within 20 linear miles of any other Category 1
19licensed facility. Except for any Category 2 licensed
20facility located by the board within a city of the first
21class, no Category 2 licensed facility shall be located
22within 20 linear miles of another Category 2 licensed
23facility or within ten linear miles of the boundary of a 
24national military park or a national memorial designated by 
25the Congress of the United States after September 11, 2001.

26(2) Within five days of approving a license for an
27applicant with a proposed licensed facility consisting of
28land designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an
29improvement subzone under the Keystone Opportunity Zone,
30Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and Keystone Opportunity

1Improvement Zone Act for a slot machine license under this
2section, the board shall notify the Department of Community
3and Economic Development. The notice shall include a
4description of the land of the proposed licensed facility
5which is designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an
6improvement subzone. Within five days of receiving the notice
7required by this paragraph, the Secretary of Community and
8Economic Development shall decertify the land of the proposed
9licensed facility as being a subzone, an expansion subzone or
10an improvement subzone. Upon decertification in accordance
11with this paragraph and notwithstanding Chapter 3 of the
12Keystone Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion
13Zone and Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act, a
14political subdivision may amend the ordinance, resolution or
15other required action which granted the exemptions,
16deductions, abatements or credits required by the Keystone
17Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and
18Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act to repeal the
19exemptions, deductions, abatements or credits for the land
20decertified.

21(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
22governing body of a city of the first class shall not exempt
23from real property taxation or provide any real property tax
24abatement under the act of December 1, 1977 (P.L.237, No.76),
25known as the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance
26Act, to a Category 2 licensed facility located within the
27city, or any improvements to such facility, unless the owner
28of the licensed facility enters into or has entered into a
29tax settlement agreement or payment in lieu of taxes
30agreement with the city, including any amendments,

1supplements or modifications of such agreements.

2§ 1305. Category 3 slot machine license.

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4(b) Location.--The following shall apply:

5(1) Except as provided in paragraph (1.1), no Category 3
6license shall be located by the board within 15 linear miles
7of another licensed facility.

8(1.1) A Category 3 license established on or after July
920, 2017, shall not be located by the board within 30 linear
10miles of another licensed facility or within ten linear miles 
11of the boundary of a national military park or a national 
12memorial designated by the Congress of the United States 
13after September 11, 2001.

14(2) Within five days of approving a license for an
15applicant with a proposed licensed facility consisting of
16land designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an
17improvement subzone under the Keystone Opportunity Zone,
18Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and Keystone Opportunity
19Improvement Zone Act for a slot machine license under this
20section, the board shall notify the Department of Community
21and Economic Development. The notice shall include a
22description of the land of the proposed licensed facility
23which is designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an
24improvement subzone. Within five days of receiving the notice
25required by this paragraph, the Secretary of Community and
26Economic Development shall decertify the land of the proposed
27license facility as being a subzone, an expansion subzone or
28an improvement subzone. Upon decertification in accordance
29with this paragraph and notwithstanding Chapter 3 of the
30Keystone Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion

1Zone and Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act, a
2political subdivision may amend the ordinance, resolution or
3other required action which granted the exemptions,
4deductions, abatements or credits required by the Keystone
5Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and
6Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act to repeal the
7exemptions, deductions, abatements or credits for the land
8decertified.

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10Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.