Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/a-7613.md

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Reforms the education requirements for persons who want to become certified public accountants"
+description: "Reforms the education requirements for persons who want to become certified public accountants; provides alternative pathways to being certified as certified public accountants."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "A 7613"
+citation: "New York A 7613 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crystal Peoples-Stokes"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-01"
+last_action: "2025-11-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5806fab4-298d-4176-be0a-6061d3d659ba"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A7613"
+source_hash: "ba288ddea12dfd14e01903c9a489fad4c63f23ccc9a423a70986d1df9aea88e0"
+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 A 7613 (2025-2026) — Reforms the education requirements for persons who want to become certified public accountants
+
+Reforms the education requirements for persons who want to become certified public accountants; provides alternative pathways to being certified as certified public accountants.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A7613** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A7613&term=2025&Text=Y)
+2. **A7613A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A7613A)
+3. **A7613B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A7613B)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote - Version: B — **57–2** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crystal Peoples-Stokes — primary (person)
+- Alicia Hyndman — cosponsor (person)
+- Aron Wieder — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Burdick — cosponsor (person)
+- Donna Lupardo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabriella Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- John T. McDonald III — cosponsor (person)
+- Judy Griffin — cosponsor (person)
+- Karines Reyes — cosponsor (person)
+- Marianne Buttenschon — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah Clark — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-01** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-15** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-15** PRINT NUMBER 7613A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-25** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-25** PRINT NUMBER 7613B `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-28** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-06** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** REPORTED
+- **2025-06-09** RULES REPORT CAL.517
+- **2025-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.517
+- **2025-06-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2025-06-09** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-12** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6891B
+- **2025-06-12** 3RD READING CAL.906
+- **2025-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-12** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-11-21** SIGNED CHAP.530 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5806fab4-298d-4176-be0a-6061d3d659ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+