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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality"
+description: "Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality and utility pole and attachment identification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 6997"
+citation: "New York S 6997 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Ryan"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-03-28"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ed11f8a-1381-4da9-96b6-43185634377f"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6997"
+source_hash: "b65fd26df3b0a4fe1ec9d3ce18470040192f5d80e188df9931c785624c234d68"
+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 6997 (2025-2026) — Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality
+
+Relates to enforcement of pole attachment safety and quality and utility pole and attachment identification.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S6997** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6997&term=2025&Text=Y)
+2. **S6997A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S6997A)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Energy And Telecommunications Vote — **8–1** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **111–31** (pass) · lower
+- Rules Vote - Version: A — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote - Version: A — **50–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Christopher Ryan — primary (person)
+- Anthony H. Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- April Baskin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean Murray — cosponsor (person)
+- Jamaal Bailey — cosponsor (person)
+- James Skoufis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton — cosponsor (person)
+- Julia Salazar — cosponsor (person)
+- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
+- Mario Mattera — cosponsor (person)
+- Michelle Hinchey — cosponsor (person)
+- Monica Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick M. Gallivan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pete Harckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelley Mayer — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Rhoads — cosponsor (person)
+- Toby Ann Stavisky — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-28** REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-13** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-27** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-27** PRINT NUMBER 6997A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-29** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-29** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1499
+- **2025-06-06** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-06** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-06-06** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7544A
+- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.740
+- **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.700 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.77
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ed11f8a-1381-4da9-96b6-43185634377f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+