Committee

New York Assembly Local Governments Committee

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
A00027 Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development median income calculations, in their comprehensive plans. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00030 Requires the return of all or a part of the financial assistance provided for a project where the project has material shortfalls or material violations; prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects already in development. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00047 Authorizes the town of Massena to issue bonds to cover the cost of pension contributions due by the town for employees of the former Massena Memorial Hospital. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00049 Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan at least once every ten years to ensure that such plan addresses housing needs. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00102 Prohibits the removal of managed natural landscapes that are maintained within the bounds of private property. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00139 Prohibits the siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity in assembly district 63; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00143 Prohibits the name of municipalities and subdivisions thereof to include the word swastika. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00237 Enacts the "local government procurement modernization and transparency act" to modernize and increase the transparency of local government procurement of goods and services; allows a political subdivision to provide notice of requests for bids by posting the requests on the New York state contract reporter website; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00331 Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00447 Requires telecommunications system contracts provide for emergency 911 in municipal land lease agreements. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00470 Relates to the cost for legal services in connection with any claim arising under the volunteer firefighter's benefit law. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00476 Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00507 Relates to Eastchester fire district elections; follows provisions of election law instead of town law for elections. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00529 Authorizes a pilot program for a county self-insured or self-funded health plan in Albany and Schenectady counties; provides municipalities of such counties are permitted to join. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00555 Establishes the city of White Plains industrial development agency and provides for its functions, powers, and duties. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00564 Relates to application and environmental assessment forms and city and village planning commissions. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00650 Prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects already in development. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00653 Prohibits the governing board of a municipal corporation from adopting any law, ordinance, regulation or policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of a utility service to a customer based upon the type or source of energy to be delivered to the customer. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00734 Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00739 Directs the secretary of state to prepare and distribute to cities, towns and villages a model comprehensive outdoor lighting ordinance. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00763 Requires towns having a population of five hundred thousand persons or more to develop and implement a communications strategy to promote summer jobs, job fairs, workforce development training centers and information about civil service testing to town residents and to conduct an annual dialogue on race, equity and inclusion; requires the Town of Hempstead to track data over time and publish a report and to conduct DEI training. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00764 Requires each municipality having a population of five hundred thousand persons or more to establish an office of the inspector general for such municipality. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00766 Makes the position of town comptroller an elected position in towns having a population of five hundred thousand persons or more; provides for a four-year term. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00810 Permits the village of Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements, with revenues to be used solely for the care of Dobbs Park, Duck Pond Park, Firefighters Memorial Field and David J. Manes Memorial Field. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/08/2025
A00831 Relates to vested rights of property owners relating to the development of their land in the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester; requires notice by applicant to property owners within 250 feet of land development application; provides for the repeal of such provisions six years after they take effect. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00838 Relates to the organization of industrial development agencies and the definition of labor organization. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00873 Requires plainly legible display of building numbers on all buildings to which numbers have been assigned; provides for a fine for violations of such requirement. In Committee 01/08/2025
A00931 Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01004 Provides for the conveyance or lease of sewer system properties located in the county of Westchester's New Rochelle sanitary sewer district and related management responsibilities to the county by municipalities in such district when determined to be in the public interest. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01056 Repeals provisions related to requiring projects be located in a highly distressed area in order to qualify for certain financial assistance from an industrial development agency. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01066 Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state. In Committee 01/08/2025
A01098 Includes providing onsite child care services or facilitating new child care services by a project into a uniform tax exemption policy. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/08/2025
A01115 Authorizes municipalities to make purchases from other municipalities' contracts. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01122 Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01127 Relates to notice to the commander of a military station of certain municipal actions that occur within 3000 feet of the property to be affected by the proposed action. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01177 Extends provisions providing for the sale of municipal obligations by the county of Erie. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/09/2025
A01212 Provides for the applicability of provisions governing referral of certain municipal planning and zoning actions to county planning agencies or regional planning councils to all counties, including counties operating under a county charter, except counties wholly contained within a city. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01367 Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01376 Requires a three-year moratorium on unfunded mandates from the legislature; invalidates legislation that does not contain a detailed fiscal note identifying a funding source for certain costs to a political subdivision; restores the mandate relief council. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01386 Establishes the electronic open auction public bond sale pilot program for counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts; provides such provisions shall remain in effect for 3 years. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01455 Exempts the South Onondaga Fire Department within the town of Onondaga, Onondaga county, from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/09/2025
A01473 Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from charging any application fee or any other fee for activities undertaken pursuant to a lake program. In Committee 01/09/2025
A01583 Imposes a term limit of four years on town supervisors. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01601 Restricts the formation of new development agencies in Erie County; limits the authority of town industrial development agencies located within Erie County to exempt certain taxes. In Committee 01/10/2025
A01633 Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and ci In Committee 01/10/2025
A01689 Requires that the district attorney in each county appoint at least one assistant district attorney to be responsible for overseeing the prosecution of animal crimes. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01723 Relates to the oversight of immigration detention facilities; prohibits municipalities from using funds or resources for the construction of any new detention facility or the expansion of any existing detention facility without approval by the legislature; establishes a committee on immigration detention oversight. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01758 Authorizes municipalities to establish a history, arts, and culture levy to support history, arts, and culture; exempts such levy from the real property tax levy limit. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01759 Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01847 Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01849 Increases temporary and permanent disability payments for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers, and specifies weekly payment amounts for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers injured in the line of duty on or after July first, two thousand twenty-six. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01861 Requires police officers to maintain liability insurance; excludes police officers from provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and employees. In Committee 01/14/2025
A01938 Includes the county of Orange within the definition of a designated community for purposes of community preservation funds. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02022 Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02039 Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district. In Committee 01/14/2025
A02071 Authorizes the town of Eden, county of Erie, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of providing needed resources to the existing parks within such town. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02079 Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in a designated or marked off area that has been set up by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participant cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02124 Authorizes the board of trustees of the village of East Syracuse to permit that the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by a non-resident who lives in the town of Dewitt. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02161 Prohibits municipal corporations from refusing resettlement of asylum seekers from other municipal corporations in the state, provided that the resettling municipal corporation covers the costs of such resettlement, and no property of the municipal corporation receiving such asylum seekers is used without such municipal corporation's consent. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02177 Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments. Crossed Over 01/15/2025
A02247 Relates to providing notice of quorum requirements to applicants for building or site permits, variances, or subdivision plats at zoning board of appeals, local planning board, county planning board, and regional planning council meetings. In Committee 01/15/2025
A02268 Provides for a referendum on the question "Do you support the division of New York into two separate states?". In Committee 01/16/2025
A02399 Makes a proclamation extending a local state of emergency issued by the chief executive subject to the approval of the local governing body of the applicable county, city, town or village; provides that all orders issued by a local board of health shall be effective for a period of five days; requires approval by the applicable local governing body for each extension thereof. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02404 Allows for the creation of a joint police department for the towns of Webb and Inlet; outlines requirements for local laws establishing rules and regulations for such department. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02408 Prohibits the governor, the legislature and state agencies from imposing residential housing zoning requirements on local governments without approval from the local government. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02416 Relates to the full-time status of the district attorney of Hamilton county. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02423 Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council. In Committee 01/16/2025
A02464 Provides certified volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits and death benefits for certain cancers. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02523 Establishes the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund to provide a death benefit to the families of auxiliary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the executive law beginning March 7, 2020. In Committee 01/17/2025
A02586 Limits the authority of cities, villages and towns to impose certain zoning requirements. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02667 Establishes an independent inspector general in each county to oversee police activity and investigate allegations of police misconduct. In Committee 01/21/2025
A02684 Expands the purposes of the volunteer and exempt firefighters' benevolent association of Thornwood, New York; provides for the payment to it of certain taxes imposed upon premiums on policies of fire insurance in foreign insurance companies. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/22/2025
A02713 Authorizes the dissolution and discontinuance by the town of Ballston, in the county of Saratoga, of the Jenkins Park District. In Committee 01/22/2025
A03044 Provides that a fire company may elect to include call firefighters within its membership who shall receive a stipend for each call that such firefighter responds to. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03047 Makes town assessors an appointed position statewide; ends elections for town assessors. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03067 Authorizes the county comptroller to examine and audit all accounts, contracts, books and records of such county's respective industrial development agency. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03109 Permits the appointment of fire chiefs and assistant chiefs who are employees of a fire district. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03147 Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03155 Allows reservists with twenty years of service to be eligible for 2.5 points on entrance exams and 1 point on promotional exams. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03216 Authorizes municipalities to contract for services through contracts let by any other governmental entity. In Committee 01/23/2025
A03386 Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03406 Provides for a hazardous pay differential for certain emergency medical technicians who are providing emergency medical services, and their supervisors, during outbreaks of infectious diseases. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03432 Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03446 Requires each town, village, and city to develop a "housing action plan for everyone", including consideration of local needs and specific strategies to address those local needs. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03468 Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park. In Committee 01/27/2025
A03479 Provides that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces and areas shall constitute a public purpose for which public funds may be expended or advanced. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03483 Relates to the delivery of the good faith deposit following award of the bonds to the successful bidder; provides that a municipality, school district or district corporation may require that such deposit be made as a condition precedent to the consideration of a bid for the bonds. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03521 Creates a volunteer firefighter training fund; makes an appropriation therefor. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03525 Classifies emergency medical services as essential services for the purposes of state aid. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03532 Imposes consultation and reporting requirements for municipal corporations resettling, transporting or relocating non-detained migrants to another municipal corporation within the state, which is directed, administered, or funded by the federal government, the secretary of health and human services in the case of minors, the secretary of homeland security in the case of adults, or any municipal corporation within the state or agents thereof. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03533 Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03579 Establishes the volunteer fire departments capital fund under the office of fire prevention and control; appropriates funds for such capital fund. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03594 Establishes a procedure for the creation of new counties; outlines population and area requirements; requires a feasibility study, petition and referendum; makes related provisions. In Committee 01/28/2025
A03624 Relates to liability for outside aid. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03626 Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03647 Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an avera In Committee 01/29/2025
A03672 Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing. In Committee 01/29/2025
A03778 Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03821 Requires that when the state or an organization is attempting to convert land to public use in a municipality with a population of less than one million, a hearing shall be held in such municipality where such land is located to allow for public comment and input from neighbors; requires a ten day notice of such hearing to members of the community. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03836 Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03837 Establishes a state disaster emergency grant and loan program administered by industrial development agencies for certain small businesses. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03848 Relates to advertising for bids and offers; letting of contracts; raises the aggregate amount for sealed bids above the current levels for commodities from $20,000 to $80,000 and public works from $35,000 to $125,000. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03855 Proposes changes to article 9 of the constitution in relation to the formation of new towns by drawing a map and preparing a charter of the proposed town and preparing a petition relating thereto. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03923 Removes requirements for certain smaller municipalities to maintain official websites. In Committee 01/30/2025
A03949 Authorizes the Jamesville-DeWitt central school district to discontinue the use of school district-owned parklands and to lease such parklands to the town of Onondaga for use by such town for park and/or recreational purposes. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/30/2025
A04001 Clarifies the definition of a paid firefighter to include firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs for the purpose of receiving certain benefits as other firefighters. In Committee 01/30/2025
A04006 Relates to the use of moneys received from foreign fire insurance companies by the Bohemia Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association, and to modernization of certain language by making such language gender neutral. In Committee 01/30/2025
A04014 Requires 30 hours of mandatory continuing education every three years for coroners and coroner's deputies. Crossed Over 01/30/2025
A04030 Authorizes the discontinuance of certain parklands in the town of Amherst, county of Erie for lease to Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, LLC d/b/a Verizon Wireless for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/30/2025
A04044 Makes certain fees and charges related to emergency medical services permanent. In Committee 01/30/2025
A04064 Establishes a youth outreach department within the state police, city, village, town, and district police departments, and sheriff departments for the purposes of designing and carrying out youth activities organized by the department. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04196 Relates to prohibiting the use of funds, financial incentives or subsidies where facilities or property are used primarily for e-commerce storage and transfers, or the facilitation thereof. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04234 Requires the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties for one year. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04271 Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000; makes an appropriation therefor. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04273 Establishes the "broadband deployment assistance act"; requires that substantially similar permits for broadband deployment be processed together at the same time and on an expedited basis; defines terms; authorizes municipalities to simultaneously process certain broadband permit applications that are substantially similar. In Committee 01/31/2025
A04369 Requires the state shall offer a statewide emergency services internet protocol network (ESINet) available for connection to local public safety answering points (PSAPs). In Committee 02/04/2025
A04419 Relates to the formula for the real property tax cap. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04477 Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04626 Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus to discontinue as parklands and lease certain reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04633 Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04660 Relates to the trustees of the Freeholders and the Commonalty of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk; provides that the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton have and shall continue to have the authority to enforce the public's easement and access upon the ocean beaches within the town of Southampton, including all rights of the public with respect to the said ocean beaches which were conferred upon them by the Dongan Patent of 1686; defines "ocean beaches" In Committee 02/04/2025
A04675 Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit. In Committee 02/04/2025
A04709 Permanently requires that the first installment of serial bonds mature not later than two years after the date of such bonds; provides that principal installments remaining unpaid on bonds may be called for redemption prior to their date of maturity in such amounts, at such times in such manner and pursuant to such terms as may be determined by the finance board of a municipality, school district or corporation at the time of the issuance thereof; repeals provisions that permanently eliminate th In Committee 02/04/2025
A04718 Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries. In Committee 02/05/2025
A04724 Relates to loans and grants by industrial development agencies; requires uniform criteria for evaluation and selection of an eligible entity for a loan; defines terms; outlines such criteria. In Committee 02/05/2025
A04729 Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by suc In Committee 02/05/2025
A04822 Provides that if, as a result of services performed in line of duty during a state of emergency, a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker is exposed to or comes in contact with COVID-19, the chief engineer or other executive officer of the fire department or fire company or the captain or other executive officer of the ambulance department, volunteer ambulance company or ambulance district of which they are a member may authorize such volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance wor In Committee 02/06/2025
A04836 Authorizes the village of Sodus Point, in the town of Sodus, county of Wayne to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. In Committee 02/06/2025
A04882 Provides that if it appears that a death may have resulted from the commission of a crime, the coroner or medical examiner in any county with geographic jurisdiction over the crime shall have concurrent jurisdiction and authority to investigate the death. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04892 Relates to the powers of the New York state industrial development agency. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04912 Relates to volunteer members of village fire companies. In Committee 02/10/2025
A04931 Authorizes municipalities located in the county of Orange and county of Rockland to charge for the cost of providing additional police protection to paid-admission events. In Committee 02/10/2025
A05047 Relates to the definition of "population" for purposes of providing substantially equal weight for the population of that local government in the allocation of representation in the local legislative body. In Committee 02/11/2025
A05077 Requires municipal corporations to approve any facility intending to house asylum seekers prior to their establishment; establishes a review process that incorporates notice to the public and the opportunity for the public to comment; renders a decision within 8 weeks. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05131 Abolishes the office of coroner. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05137 Directs municipalities to permit the construction and occupation of dwelling units with a density of at least twenty-five dwelling units per acre, on any land wherein residential construction and occupation is otherwise permitted if such land is within one-half mile of any covered transportation facility. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05171 Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05240 Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to amend an existing conservation easement to allow for rail access and service. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05257 Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05258 Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05261 Prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects where the occupier of the project is not disclosed. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05290 Requires county planning departments to review specific annexation petitions. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05294 Permits alternate members of certain planning boards and zoning boards of appeals for any reason the town board deems necessary pursuant to local law, rule, regulation or ordinance. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05296 Relates to county-wide shared services panels; includes library districts within county-wide shared services panels; establishes the municipal efficiency fund to provide counties with awards of matching funds upon certification by the department of state. In Committee 02/12/2025
A05365 Relates to the amount of the allowable levy growth factor and the percentage of votes needed to override the tax levy limit. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05370 Authorizes the building inspector in the town of Pendleton, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town if they reside within such county or an adjoining county. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
A05371 Requires 911 call-takers and dispatchers to complete CPR training which shall include recognizing signs of cardiac arrest during emergency calls, providing instructions for initiating CPR to callers, coordinating with emergency medical services dispatch, and using automated external defibrillators when available and appropriate. In Committee 02/13/2025
A05424 Establishes the Terry Cooper autopsy accountability act requiring autopsy reports to include all photographs of the body, microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays taken by, at the direction of, or reviewed by the person performing the autopsy. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05477 Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05485 Provides that local state of emergency orders issued by a chief executive of a county, city, town or village shall not violate section 291 of the executive law providing equality of opportunity of a civil right. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05557 Provides that a policy of this state should be to increase housing options and opportunities, including but not limited to affordable, and workforce and senior housing. In Committee 02/14/2025
A05574 Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner. Crossed Over 02/18/2025
A05624 Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner In Committee 02/18/2025
A05641 Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program; enables municipalities to repair immediately hazardous code violations in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs in a reasonable time. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05644 Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus to discontinue as reforested lands certain reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg. In Committee 02/18/2025
A05653 Provides that any requirement that undocumented immigrants who are seeking asylum in the United States be sheltered in a certain locality or localities shall only apply to those towns, cities, and counties that opt-in to such requirement through the adoption of a local law or ordinance; defines the term "sheltered" as including, but not limited to, being temporarily or permanently placed into housing, dwelling, or living quarters by a state or local governmental entity. In Committee 02/19/2025
A05668 Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life. In Committee 02/19/2025
A05801 Requires that local governments comply with a detainer request issued by a federal law enforcement agency; requires that such local government not interfere with the ability of federal law enforcement officials to conduct enforcement activities at municipal or county jails in furtherance of their duty to enforce federal laws. In Committee 02/20/2025
A05851 Authorizes the town of Union Vale, county of Dutchess, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to lease the lands to Homeland Towers, LLC for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05877 Ratifies and confirms the creation of water district number 14 of the town of Monroe, made up of the water system previously owned and operated by Orchard Hill Water Company and which has been owned and operated by the town of Monroe by mandate from the public service commission since 2013; authorizes the issuance of bonds or notes by such town to finance certain inter-fund borrowings by such water district. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05900 Authorizes the county of Suffolk to alienate certain lands used as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands. In Committee 02/24/2025
A05968 Expands the provisions of the urban development action area act by amending the definition of municipality and eligible area to include any city instead of specifically applying to a city with one million or more. In Committee 02/25/2025
A06015 Relates to excluding renewable energy pilot projects and certain energy system-related payments in lieu of taxes from tax cap calculations, and to the establishment of a distributed generation energy development program that provides a single forum for state-level appeals for proposed distributed generation energy facilities. In Committee 02/25/2025
A06097 Authorizes the town of Orangetown to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. Crossed Over 02/26/2025
A06124 Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06126 Prohibits a city, town, village or of a joint water district from imposing certain levies, charges, taxes or assessments on a property which uses private well water for its water supply; prohibits a city, town or village from imposing certain levies, charges, taxes or assessments on a property which uses a septic system for treatment of waste water. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06149 Authorizes the town of Wawayanda to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06184 Establishes the Nassau county and Queens county border task force to review jurisdiction and boundary disputes. In Committee 02/26/2025
A06231 Renames the "West Islip Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association" to the "West Islip Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association"; changes such association's purpose. In Committee 02/27/2025
A06328 Prohibits a member of the board of trustees and the mayor from being appointed to the board of assessors for a village. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06342 Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06365 Includes temporarily erected structures in the definition of "substandard or insanitary area". In Committee 03/04/2025
A06410 Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06428 Establishes the "county of Westchester public works investment act" which allows the Westchester county department of public works and the Westchester county department of transportation to utilize design-build project delivery. In Committee 03/04/2025
A06446 Enacts the "wireless broadband eligible facility permitting act" to provide for uniform regulation of certain wireless facilities. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06487 Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06523 Requires certain municipal positions undergo continuing legal education courses in ethics and the format in which such courses may be completed. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06528 Requires floor area ratio requirements for buildings on farms to be no more restrictive than state requirements for zoning purposes. In Committee 03/05/2025
A06572 Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06593 Provides for the control and disposal of funds and property and the management of the Hampton Bays Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; increases the number of members of its board of trustees from five to eight; relates to the collection of taxes imposed by section 9104 of the insurance law for fire department use and benefit; makes technical corrections. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/06/2025
A06604 Authorizes the town of Huntington to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Huntington African American Museum. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06625 Relates to industrial development agencies; relates to such agencies' representation, public hearings, notices of agenda, and school board reporting. In Committee 03/06/2025
A06685 Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law. In Committee 03/07/2025
A06763 Enacts the private activity bond allocation act to establish an alternative formula for making volume ceiling allocations. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/12/2025
A06769 Requires all municipal corporations to report cybersecurity incidents and demands of ransom payments to the division of homeland security and emergency services; defines terms; requires cybersecurity incident reviews; requires cybersecurity awareness training, cybersecurity protection and data protection standards for state maintained information systems. Crossed Over 03/13/2025
A06824 Provides for eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination. Crossed Over 03/14/2025
A06845 Provides that the election of chief and assistant chief by a fire department may be on the same day as the day of election of the fire department's election of administration officers. In Committee 03/14/2025
A06890 Provides that the fire commissioner of any fire department in cities having a population of one million or more shall not substantially alter the boundaries of fire companies, once fixed, or close, remove or relocate a fire company unless at least thirty days prior to the taking effect of such action written notice thereof has been given to each local community board or boards having jurisdiction over that part of the city directly affected by such proposed action or service reduction. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06915 Directs the secretary of State to issue to the village of Nelliston in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery county, a certificate of incorporation verifying the status of the village of Nelliston as incorporated as a village since 1878. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06918 Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof. Crossed Over 03/18/2025
A06956 Amends the name of the Hauppauge Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association, and certain provisions regarding removing gendered terminology; relates to the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/18/2025
A06979 Authorizes the town of Pavilion in Genesee county to share and hold justice court in the town of Covington in Wyoming county. In Committee 03/18/2025
A06996 Prohibits the siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity in assembly district 64; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. In Committee 03/18/2025
A07004 Updates the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter and provides for new duties of such charter. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/18/2025
A07089 Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to qualified residential facilities; defines "qualified residential facility" as any multi-family residential facility with units that are for sale, in any municipality located within the county of Westchester, and which is located in an urban renewal area. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07117 Authorizes political subdivisions to award public contracts to participants of a minority and women owned business enterprise program at a cost premium not to exceed ten percent of the lowest bid. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07122 Empowers district attorneys to review and release at their discretion, all footage from body worn cameras utilized by law enforcement agencies within the county of such district attorney. In Committee 03/20/2025
A07232 Provides that the police commissioner of any police department in a city having a population of one million or more shall not substantially alter the boundaries of police precincts, once fixed, or close, remove or relocate a police stationhouse unless at least thirty days prior to the date such action shall take effect, written notice of such action has been given to each local community board or board having jurisdiction over that part of the city directly affected by such proposed alteration, In Committee 03/21/2025
A07250 Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town. Crossed Over 03/21/2025
A07286 Allows Westchester county to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities based on the combined average poverty rate and unemployment rate. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07287 Authorizes the assistant court clerk and fire marshal of the town of Harrison, county of Westchester, to be nonresidents of such town. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/25/2025
A07302 Creates the Eastchester creek intermunicipal economic revitalization agency. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07331 Requires the office of fire prevention and control to pay training stipends in specific amounts to volunteer firefighters for completion of certain firefighter trainings; provides that if a volunteer fire company pays training stipends to volunteer firefighters in an amount below what is otherwise required to be paid by OFPC, OFPC shall pay the remaining amount. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07349 Authorizes the town of Niagara to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07361 Relates to an ambulance fee schedule for ambulance service to licensed emergency departments. In Committee 03/25/2025
A07411 Permits the commissioner of health to designate local health officials to request copies of certain reports and records relating to a death. Crossed Over 03/25/2025
A07432 Provides that each fire district, department or company required to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits for volunteer fire fighters pursuant to section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law shall be entitled to reimbursement by the state for payments made in order to obtain the insurance coverage necessary to satisfy the requirements of section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law. In Committee 03/27/2025
A07487 Authorizes the village of Greenwood Lake, county of Orange to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. In Committee 03/28/2025
A07598 Requires municipalities which permit sidewalk and roadway cafes to permit year-round outdoor dining. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07620 Expands the Tompkins county industrial development agency from a maximum of seven members to nine members. In Committee 04/01/2025
A07640 Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment, machinery or apparatus. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07645 Permits an incorporated firefighter's benevolent association created by act of the legislature to include the following in the purposes of the association without an additional act of the legislature; to promote friendly association for the betterment of the members of the corporation; to promote relations between the members of the corporation and the local community; to provide relief, aid and assistance to those members and their families who are injured, disabled or indigent; to provide for In Committee 04/04/2025
A07651 Relates to the purpose of such corporation and the use of certain tax monies received by the Rescue Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association Inc. in the town of Cheektowaga, Erie county. Crossed Over 04/04/2025
A07666 Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07675 Authorizes a city, town or village to establish a program whereby a building permit may be issued based upon certification by a registered architect or professional engineer. In Committee 04/04/2025
A07731 Relates to volunteer members of village fire companies. In Committee 04/08/2025
A07815 Establishes the "New York municipal asset forfeiture accountability act" which requires that all funds lawfully seized by a county sheriff or other municipal police agency shall go to such municipalities' general fund. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07837 Authorizes the date of elections of officers in the fire department in the village of Croton-on-Hudson in the county of Westchester to vary from other village fire elections. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 04/11/2025
A07839 Relates to the Nesconset Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; provides for the purpose of such association, and its use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. Crossed Over 04/11/2025
A07885 Authorizes the town justice of the town of Montour, county of Schuyler, to be a nonresident of such town. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07890 Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of twenty years. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07917 Provides for a review process of proposals to alienate municipal parkland. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07918 Relates to the membership and purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Coldenham Inc.; changes the name of the association to the "Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Coldenham, Inc"; updates the purposes of such association and the use of taxes received by such association. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07922 Establishes a community housing fund in the town of Rochester, county of Ulster, to provide housing opportunities for its residents. In Committee 04/11/2025
A07980 Includes environmental pollution mitigation projects within the authorized purposes of industrial development agencies. In Committee 04/16/2025
A08008 Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district. In Committee 04/21/2025
A08037 Relates to benefits for police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation. In Committee 04/22/2025
A08086 Directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties. In Committee 04/24/2025
A08091 Provides that certain purchase contracts to purchase food can be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills certain values based procurement standards when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder and when the bidder makes publicly available data on where such bidder sources their food items; sets forth the criteria for values based procurement standards to include local economies, environmental resilience, racial equity, valued workforce, valued agricultural secto In Committee 04/25/2025
A08121 Creates the Oak Orchard wastewater project; provides that Onondaga county, within certain requirements and only when a project labor agreement is performed, the county may utilize the alternative delivery method referred to as a design-build contract for a project. In Committee 05/01/2025
A08140 Authorizes the village of Nyack to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to use the funds received for the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities. In Committee 05/01/2025
A08146 Authorizes the town of Hurley to alienate certain lands used as parklands for the purpose of constructing a new highway garage for the town and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/01/2025
A08165 Permits the city of White Plains, Westchester county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/05/2025
A08173 Requires municipalities and other public officials to retain security recordings for a minimum of fifteen months. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08185 Authorizes two or more contiguous municipalities to create a broadband union district for the creation, administration, and maintenance of broadband infrastructure and services within such district; provides for governance, funding, powers, limitations, and related provisions for broadband union districts. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08203 Requires any municipality which conducts lead testing to provide notices to the owner and any tenants of a residence upon a positive test and inform the owner and any tenants of lead abatement programs and other resources; requires municipalities to notify tenants of lead testing. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08224 Allows political subdivisions which contract to receive fire protection services from a special fire company or department to jointly establish a service award program with political subdivisions which contract to receive ambulance services from the same special fire company or department. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08234 Changes the name of the Brockport Exempt Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association, Inc.; expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by such organization. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08251 Increases the maximum compensation for commissioners of improvement districts from one hundred to one hundred twenty dollars per day. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08252 Permits the town of Warwick to utilize preservation funds for the implementation of water quality improvement projects. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08255 Provides that at the request of an owner of a parcel of property within the boundaries of such sewer district requests exclusion from the sewer district due to the lack of sewage services provided to such parcel of property, such request shall be granted without the state department of health approval and without the procedure set forth in section 256 of the county law. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08262 Authorizes counties to post local laws and notices via the internet where such county doesn't have a newspaper published within the county. In Committee 05/05/2025
A08268 Extends the expiration of payments in lieu of taxes for Lido Beach in the town of Hempstead until June 30, 2027. In Committee 05/06/2025
A08275 Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/08/2025
A08276 Amends provisions relating to creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters, in relation to the effectiveness of such provisions. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/08/2025
A08277 Extends the open auction bond sale pilot program. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/08/2025
A08279 Permits the Setauket fire district and Stony Brook fire district to enter into contracts with the state university of New York at Stony Brook for property, services, and other consideration. Crossed Over 05/08/2025
A08293 Waives the residency requirement for the office of commissioner of finance of the county of Putnam. In Committee 05/12/2025
A08328 Provides that the future siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity, and including, but not limited to, those deploying lithium-ion batteries, are prohibited on Long Island, in the counties of Suffolk and Nassau. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08366 Extends from June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2027, the expiration of provisions of the town law relating to payments in lieu of taxes for property acquired for park or recreational purposes by the town of Hempstead. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08371 Authorizes the town of Ithaca, county of Tompkins, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of maintaining and operating such lands for agricultural purposes. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/13/2025
A08373 Authorizes the discontinuance of certain parklands in the town of Cortlandville, county of Cortland for lease to Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc. for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and operating an electronic sign. In Committee 05/13/2025
A08455 Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland. In Committee 05/16/2025
A08464 Revives provisions of law relating to authorizing the use of existing village sewer rents for infrastructure projects other than sewer projects in the village of Baldwinsville. In Committee 05/16/2025
A08525 Relates to the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Ridge volunteer exempt firefighter's benevolent association. Crossed Over 05/20/2025
A08526 Authorizes alienation of certain parkland in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county and the lease of such land for a wireless communication tower, and an easement for access and utilities. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08557 Authorizes the village of Malverne to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to develop new parkland or capital improvements to existing parks within the village. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08558 Permits the village of Croton-on-Hudson to allow the office of assistant village engineer of such village to be held by a person who is not a resident of such village, provided that such person resides within Westchester county or an adjoining county within the state of New York. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/20/2025
A08562 Requires municipalities to submit a multi-year financial plan to the comptroller which shall identify actions necessary to achieve and maintain long-term fiscal stability. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08563 Authorizes municipalities and districts to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of centralized public employee administrative and personnel services; provides for health insurance coverage of municipal employees pursuant to standardized health insurance contracts; authorizes the provision of reduced premiums for municipal health insurance plans which offer wellness programs. In Committee 05/20/2025
A08582 Authorizes counties with a population of one million or more persons to undertake certain public works pursuant to project labor agreements; authorizes the use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. In Committee 05/21/2025
A08591 Extends the expiration of provisions relating to including the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton, trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East Hampton and the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southold as municipal corporations for the purposes of permitting them to receive land at no cost from Suffolk County to be placed under their stewardship. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/21/2025
A08619 Exempts persons holding the office of clerk-treasurer or deputy clerk in the village of Baxter Estates from the requirement that such person be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen or within which such person's official functions are required to be exercised. In Committee 05/22/2025
A08621 Authorizes the village of Kings Point, town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau, to alienate and discontinue certain parklands for the purpose of providing additional parking for the community center being built by the United Mashadi Jewish Community of America, and to replace such alienated parkland with a new, dedicated parkland. In Committee 05/22/2025
A08687 Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the authority of the village of Plandome Manor to enter into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens or to pledge such liens as collateral for a loan. In Committee 05/29/2025
A08749 Relates to the use of certain park funds required by a planning board in lieu of land for parks for the costs associated with the acquisition of property, improvement, expansion, repair or replacement of parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities and equipment, general maintenance of parks and recreational facilities. In Committee 06/02/2025
A08774 Updates the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter; amends the purposes of such organization and the permitted uses of certain insurance premium taxes collected. In Committee 06/02/2025
A08794 Extends the provisions of accepting payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for parks or recreational purposes. In Committee 06/05/2025
A08834 Limits the authority of cities, villages and towns to impose certain zoning regulations, ordinances, or local laws which would have the effect of reducing the number or density of allowable housing units in the area subject to the regulations, ordinances, or local laws. In Committee 06/09/2025
A08873 Requires municipal corporations to reimburse residents in whole or in part for justifiable maintenance, such as snow removal and the removal of debris, of publicly owned areas. In Committee 06/09/2025
A08880 Regulates the use of cooperative purchasing agreements for public works projects by political subdivisions of the state by implementing certain advertisement requirements. In Committee 06/09/2025
A08895 Relates to the regulation of municipal shooting ranges, including limiting the hours of operation and addressing noise pollution; directs the department of health to conduct a study describing the contaminants and other pollutants in the ground and water bodies adjacent to certain shooting ranges. In Committee 06/11/2025
A08903 Authorizes the county of Putnam to alienate certain lands used as parklands in the town of Carmel for use as a cell tower. In Committee 06/16/2025
A08957 Provides that where a supervisor in a town with a population of two hundred fifty thousand or more vacates their position before the end of their term, a special election shall occur in order to fill such vacant supervisor position. In Committee 08/11/2025
A09007 Authorizes the town of Niagara to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to convey such parklands to David Gaines. In Committee 08/13/2025
A09046 Establishes limits upon local government tax levies. In Committee 09/05/2025
A09124 Establishes a municipal group insurance technical assistance program for the purpose of assisting persons and municipalities with access to indemnity insurance and employee compensation pursuant to the volunteer firefighter's benefit law. In Committee 09/26/2025
S00017 Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life. Crossed Over 05/28/2025
S00190 Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit. Crossed Over 04/01/2025
S00273 Permanently requires that the first installment of serial bonds mature not later than two years after the date of such bonds; provides that principal installments remaining unpaid on bonds may be called for redemption prior to their date of maturity in such amounts, at such times in such manner and pursuant to such terms as may be determined by the finance board of a municipality, school district or corporation at the time of the issuance thereof; repeals provisions that permanently eliminate th Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S00600 Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually. Crossed Over 04/30/2025
S00624 Authorizes the village of Greenwood Lake, county of Orange to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S00649 Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years. Crossed Over 06/09/2025
S00783 Removes requirements for certain smaller municipalities to maintain official websites. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/10/2025
S00807 Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from charging any application fee or any other fee for activities undertaken pursuant to a lake program. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 01/22/2025
S01057 Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland. Crossed Over 02/24/2025
S01172 Requires towers to clean up any debris in the surrounding area resulting from the vehicles they are towing and tow trucks to be equipped with the appropriate equipment for such clean up efforts. Crossed Over 06/05/2025
S01397 Authorizes the town of Eden, county of Erie, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of providing needed resources to the existing parks within such town. Crossed Over 06/06/2025
S01982 Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S02084 Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan at least once every ten years to ensure that such plan addresses housing needs. Crossed Over 05/28/2025
S02317 Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S02598 Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given. Crossed Over 05/29/2025
S03445 Authorizes the village of Sodus Point, in the town of Sodus, county of Wayne to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village. Crossed Over 06/06/2025
S04464 Relates to the organization of industrial development agencies and the definition of labor organization. Crossed Over 05/29/2025
S04483 Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law. Crossed Over 03/05/2025
S04658 Relates to prohibiting the use of funds, financial incentives or subsidies where facilities or property are used primarily for e-commerce storage and transfers, or the facilitation thereof. Crossed Over 06/09/2025
S04780 Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality. Crossed Over 05/06/2025
S04803 Establishes a municipal group insurance technical assistance program for the purpose of assisting persons and municipalities with access to indemnity insurance and employee compensation pursuant to the volunteer firefighter's benefit law. Crossed Over 06/09/2025
S04824 Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition. Crossed Over 06/13/2025
S04940 Establishes a youth outreach department within the state police, city, village, town, and district police departments, and sheriff departments for the purposes of designing and carrying out youth activities organized by the department. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S04980 Expands the law to include the preservation of regionally significant projects with respect to agencies drawing on funds for new building projects. Crossed Over 03/19/2025
S05224 Authorizes the town of Union Vale, county of Dutchess, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to lease the lands to Homeland Towers, LLC for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 06/12/2025
S05563 Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers. Crossed Over 05/12/2025
S06009 Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and ci Crossed Over 06/09/2025
S06439 Directs the secretary of State to issue to the village of Nelliston in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery county, a certificate of incorporation verifying the status of the village of Nelliston as incorporated as a village since 1878. Crossed Over 06/13/2025
S07053 Authorizes counties to post local laws and notices via the internet where such county doesn't have a newspaper published within the county. Crossed Over 06/13/2025
S07072 Expands the Tompkins county industrial development agency from a maximum of seven members to nine members. Crossed Over 06/13/2025
S07158 Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of twenty years. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S07204 Exempts the Caughdenoy Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., within the town of Central Square, Oswego county from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members. Crossed Over 06/04/2025
S07316 Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district. Crossed Over 06/10/2025
S07538 Authorizes the village of Nyack to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to use the funds received for the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities. Crossed Over 06/11/2025
S07555 Renames the "West Islip Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association" to the "West Islip Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association"; changes such association's purpose. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 06/06/2025
S07672 Requires all municipal corporations to report cybersecurity incidents and demands of ransom payments to the division of homeland security and emergency services; defines terms; requires cybersecurity incident reviews; requires cybersecurity awareness training, cybersecurity protection and data protection standards for state maintained information systems. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 05/12/2025
S07677 Permits the town of Warwick to utilize preservation funds for the implementation of water quality improvement projects. Crossed Over 06/12/2025
S07868 Authorizes the village of Kings Point, town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau, to alienate and discontinue certain parklands for the purpose of providing additional parking for the community center being built by the United Mashadi Jewish Community of America, and to replace such alienated parkland with a new, dedicated parkland. Crossed Over 06/13/2025
S07873 Authorizes alienation of certain parkland in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county and the lease of such land for a wireless communication tower, and an easement for access and utilities. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 06/11/2025
S08201 Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the authority of the village of Plandome Manor to enter into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens or to pledge such liens as collateral for a loan. Crossed Over 06/11/2025