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legislation/us/states/ny/2017-2018/s-8940.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd."
+description: "Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd. for portions of the 2016-2017 school and general taxes and all of the 2017-2018 school and 2018 general taxes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "S 8940"
+citation: "New York S 8940 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["PHILLIPS"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-06-06"
+last_action: "2018-12-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f963990-083c-4bbb-ad0e-17bffc817655"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S8940"
+source_hash: "2b5536b836aeacd85cbb91a47e5c033f61bce1ce4ab628120f6c68673a11651c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 8940 (2017-2018) — Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd.
+
+Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd. for portions of the 2016-2017 school and general taxes and all of the 2017-2018 school and 2018 general taxes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8940 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8940&term=2017&Text=Y)
+2. **S8940 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S8940)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **142–1** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **59–2** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote — **24–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- PHILLIPS — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-06-06** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1695
+- **2018-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2018-06-11** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2018-06-11** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A11137
+- **2018-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.396
+- **2018-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2018-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2018-12-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-12-21** SIGNED CHAP.452 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f963990-083c-4bbb-ad0e-17bffc817655`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+