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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/s-2279.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Excludes certain food donations from sales tax"
+description: "Excludes food sold to a student purchasing a meal using an approved donation program of funds or food points from sales tax."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 2279"
+citation: "New York S 2279 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lea Webb"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8374a899-8f1a-43ab-97ad-6ac608298423"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2279"
+source_hash: "c859c6d989de3f4e04d2fbe7ae2b54b73e5fa58917582099368c36b6075502ea"
+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 2279 (2025-2026) — Excludes certain food donations from sales tax
+
+Excludes food sold to a student purchasing a meal using an approved donation program of funds or food points from sales tax.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S2279** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2279&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
+- Finance Vote — **22–0** (pass) · upper
+- Budget And Revenue Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lea Webb — primary (person)
+- Rachel May — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Rolison — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-29** 1ST REPORT CAL.753
+- **2025-04-30** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2025-05-01** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-05-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-05-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-05-05** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-17** SUBSTITUTED FOR A4216
+- **2025-06-17** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.860
+- **2025-06-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-17** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.678 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.59
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8374a899-8f1a-43ab-97ad-6ac608298423`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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