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Votes at a glance: Senate passes multiple bills including consumer protections, tax law changes and stormwater authority expansion
Summary
On April 2 the New York State Senate completed a series of roll calls on its calendar, passing multiple bills on consumer protections, tax law changes, environmental provisions and authorizing some public authorities to manage stormwater. Vote tallies where recorded on the floor are listed below.
The New York State Senate on April 2 moved through its calendar and passed a series of bills spanning consumer protections, real property tax law changes, environmental measures and authorizations for public authorities to manage stormwater. Several votes were roll-called on the floor, with the clerks announcing tallies and listing specific negative votes where recorded.
Why it matters: The measures affect a mix of regulatory, taxation and infrastructure authorities statewide; many passed with broad margins and will become law on the effective dates announced on the floor.
Votes at a glance (as recorded on the floor):
- Calendar/Counter 317 — Senate Print 3072 (sponsor: Senator Sanders). Subject: enactment related to general business law (consumer protections). Result: Ayes 39, Nays 20. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 318 — Senate Print 3695 (sponsor: Senator Sanders). Subject: enactment related to general business law. Result: Ayes 41, Nays 18. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 449 — Senate Print 3574 (sponsor: Senator Cleare). Subject: enactment of provisions to the real property tax law (senior/STAR recertification change). Result: Ayes 59. Status: passed. Sponsor noted the change would add a second notice to older New Yorkers who fail to recertify STAR/enhanced STAR.
- Calendar/Counter 506 — Senate Print 5041 (sponsor: Senator Sapova). Subject: amendment to the executive law. Result: Ayes 59. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 516 — Senate Print 4995 (sponsor: Senator Hartman). Subject: amendment to the environmental conservation law. Result: Ayes 59. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 530 — Senate Print 4132 (sponsor: Senator Parker). Subject: amendment to the executive law. Result: Ayes 44, Nays 15. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 579 — Senate Print 3260 (sponsor: Senator Cooney). Result: Ayes 59. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 581 — Senate Print 6024 (sponsor: Senator Baskin). Subject: amendments to the public authorities law. Result: Ayes 59. Status: passed.
- Calendar/Counter 599 — Senate Print 4071 (sponsor: Senator May). Subject: amendment referenced to public authorities law with stormwater provisions; sponsor explained the bill will allow water/sewer authorities to manage stormwater and cited benefits for municipalities facing severe storms. Result: Ayes 56, Nays 3 (senators Rhodes, Walzick, and White were recorded as voting no). Status: passed.
Several other items on the contested and supplemental calendars were disposed of during the session; where roll-call tallies and specific negative votes were announced on the record, they are reflected above. Where the transcript did not provide a full printed title or subject, the entry above lists the sponsor, senate print number and vote result as announced on the floor.
What was not specified on the floor: some printed bill titles and full text details were not read aloud in the excerpted floor record; the clerk announced last-section readings and effective dates, but longer captions and statutory changes should be confirmed in the official printed bills and session laws for precise statutory text.
