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Home/Bills/S 608New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 608: Requires the New York state thruway authority to submit biannual reports to the legislature of all fiscal transactions, receipts and expenditures, with each report covering activity from the prior six months.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified December 6, 2025

What S 608 does, verified December 6, 2025

The bill requires the New York State Thruway Authority to submit biannual reports to the governor, legislature, comptroller, and director of the budget. The reports must cover the preceding six-month period and include detailed information about the authority's operations, financial condition, receipts, expenditures, and any additional expenditures resulting from a specific amendment. The reports will also include a list of any contracts entered into during the covered period. The reports must be submitted by the first day of February of each year, and the bill will take effect on the first day of January next succeeding the date it becomes a law.

Bill journey
✓IntroducedComplete
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Last action: VETOED MEMO.75 (2025-12-05)Alert me
Recent actions13 total · showing 5
Dec. 05, 2025VETOED MEMO.75
Dec. 01, 2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
Jun. 10, 2025returned to senate
Jun. 10, 2025passed assembly
Jun. 10, 2025ordered to third reading rules cal.575
Full action history, 8 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 348 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 608 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the New York state thruway authority to submit biannual reports of all fiscal transactions, receipts and expenditures The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 363 of the public authorities law, as amended by 2 chapter 766 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 363. [Annual] Biannual report. (a) The authority shall submit to the 4 governor, to the legislature, to the comptroller and to the director of 5 the budget [on or before the first day of February of each year] biannu- 6 ally a detailed report setting forth its operations and fiscal trans- 7 actions during the [preceding calendar year] covered period with a 8 statement of its financial condition as of the end of such [year] 9 covered period and a statement of all receipts and expenditures during 10 such [year] covered period. Such report shall include detailed informa- 11 tion relating to additional expenditures incurred by the authority as a 12 result of the amendments made to subdivision four of section three 13 hundred fifty-nine of this [chapter] title pursuant to the chapter of 14 the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-two which enacted this sentence. 15 Additionally, such report shall include a list of any contract entered 16 into by such authority in the covered period. 17 (b) For the purposes of this section, "covered period" shall mean the 18 preceding six-month period. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 20 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02484-01-5 
Text of S 608 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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