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Home/Bills/S 807New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 807: Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from charging any application fee or any other fee for activities undertaken pursuant to a lake program.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified July 2, 2025

What S 807 does, verified July 2, 2025

The bill aims to exempt the state from charging fees for activities conducted under adopt-a-park, shoreline, or roadway programs that include lakes. This exemption applies to programs under the Environmental Conservation Law. The exemption is intended to promote the inclusion of lakes in these programs. The bill takes effect on the same date as a related chapter of the laws.

Bill journey
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6ChapteredCurrent
Last action: SIGNED CHAP.92 (2025-02-12)Alert me
Recent actions11 total · showing 5
Feb. 14, 2025SIGNED CHAP.92
Feb. 12, 2025returned to senate
Feb. 12, 2025passed assembly
Feb. 12, 2025ordered to third reading rules cal.99
Feb. 12, 2025substituted for a1473
Full action history, 6 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 330 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 807 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general municipal law relating to including lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4636 and A. 4563, in relation to fees for activities under- taken pursuant to a lake program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the 2 general municipal law relating to including lakes in adopt-a-municipal 3 park, shoreline or roadway programs, as proposed in legislative bills 4 numbers S. 4636 and A. 4563 is renumbered section 4 and a new section 3 5 is added to read as follows: 6 § 3. Subdivision 7 of section 70-0117 of the environmental conserva- 7 tion law, as amended by chapter 329 of the laws of 1995, is amended to 8 read as follows: 9 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall 10 not charge any application fee or any other fee for any activity under- 11 taken pursuant to an adopt-a-park, shoreline [or], roadway or lake 12 program pursuant to section two hundred seventy-seven of the general 13 municipal law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 15 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general municipal 16 law relating to including lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or 17 roadway programs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4636 and 18 A. 4563, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02851-01-5 
Text of S 807 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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