Albany, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed authorizing three Las Vegas-type casinos in upstate New York, two video slot machine centers in western New York and a five-year moratorium on casinos in New York City.

Cuomo made the announcement Wednesday in a bill expected to be the basis of a possible legislative deal by the end of the legislative session June 20.

Cuomo's proposal would put resort casinos in three of six regions. A commission appointed by himself and Assembly and Senate leaders would have a role in siting those casinos.

The regions in play include the Catskills, where Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun are partnering with developers on separate projects, the Albany-Saratoga region, the North Country, central New York, the eastern part of the Southern Tier and western New York.

The proposal going to the Legislature would allow only one casino in a region.

"We're very interested in the Catskills. We would hope there would be more than one (casino)," Scott Butera, Foxwoods' president and chief executive officer, said after meeting with elected officials. "We think the area can support it. There are some synergies to having more than one."

Cuomo wants a minimum $50 million licensing fee and a 25 percent cut of gross revenues going to the state.

His proposal mirrors one that the administration briefed the Legislature on Tuesday and that was reported by The Associated Press.

Cuomo again seeks to pressure the Seneca Nation of Indians by threatening to put a private sector, Las Vegas-style casino in the Buffalo region that would compete with the tribe's casino. Cuomo's bill wouldn't put a new casino in the Seneca's area if the tribe was in "good standing."

"He's a bully," Seneca President Barry Snyder Sr. told The Buffalo News on Tuesday after meetings in Albany. "I'll say it again - he's a bully."

The Senecas are withholding casino revenue from the state until the Cuomo administration agrees not to allow a private casino operator to open a competing Niagara Falls casino.

The proposed large video slot machine center in western New York would be run by the region's off-track betting agency. For the first time, the video casino would be operated away from a racetrack, where they are called racinos.

Cuomo said the video slot machines would be authorized only if the Senecas fail to agree to release the state's share of casino revenues.

Cuomo's proposal doesn't include a large video slot machine center for Long Island, which was included in a Senate casino bill. Two people familiar with the Cuomo administration briefings on Tuesday said the Long Island facility was debated but may not make the final deal with the Legislature. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had detailed Cuomo's proposal before the governor released it publicly.

The deal would allow casinos to be approved in New York City, likely outside Manhattan, five years after the upstate casinos began operating. A huge and lucrative video slot machine center operates at Aqueduct race track in Queens.

Cuomo's proposal reflects some changes from previously public concepts given by the Democratic governor and legislative leaders. Recently, Senate Republicans sought as many as three casinos in the historic resort areas of the Catskills under a plan that would have approved five casinos overall.

The Coalition Against Gambling in New York are among those fighting the governor's expansion of casinos as a way to create job, boost tourism and raise tax revenues.

"Casinos depend for half their gross gaming revenue on the small minority of their customers who are pathological or problem gamblers," stated the group of clergy and other opponents of gambling.

Day staff writer Brian Hallenbeck contributed to the story.