New York Assembly adopts resolution to adjourn 2025 session, orders carryover and committee referrals
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Summary
The Assembly unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution to adjourn the 2025 session (Ayes 127, Nos 0), ordered returned Senate bills to third reading or committee, and appointed two‑member committees to notify the governor and the Senate. Several procedural motions to carry bills forward to 2026 were approved.
The New York State Assembly voted to adjourn its 2025 legislative session and set procedural orders for carryover into 2026, adopting an Assembly concurrent resolution by a recorded vote of 127 to 0.
The clerk read the concurrent resolution (Assembly No. 823), and the chamber recorded the result as Ayes 127, Nos 0. After the vote, Majority Leader Crystal Peoples‑Stokes moved to reconsider final passage of Assembly bills returned from the Senate and to direct returned bills to the order of third reading unless committed to committee under Assembly Rule 3; the motions carried on voice vote. Peoples‑Stokes also moved that any bill on the order of third reading at the close of 2025 be placed on the order of third reading at the start of the 2026 session and that remaining bills (except those already set for third reading) be referred to committee; both motions passed.
The Assembly also carried a motion to reconsider the substitution of Senate bills and return those bills (except ones signed, vetoed, pending governor action, or already delivered to the Secretary of State) to the Senate. The presiding officer then declared the 2025 session adjourned.
In addition, the chamber adopted resolutions appointing two‑member committees to inform the governor and the Senate that the Assembly had adjourned for 2025 and was organized to proceed with business; the clerk named the appointees on the floor.
The Assembly's procedural votes and appointments close out the formal business of the 2025 session and establish how bills returned from the Senate and unfinished business will be handled at the start of the 2026 session.
Next steps: the majority gave notice of a planned amendment to Assembly rules (Rule 9, Section 1) to take effect on or after Jan. 12, 2026, and the chamber agreed to adjourn until Jan. 8 and reconvene Jan. 12 at 2 p.m.
