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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enacts the avoiding vexatious overuse of impleading to delay (AVOID) act"
+description: "Enacts the \"avoiding vexatious overuse of impleading to delay (AVOID) act\" which relates to time frames for certain court filings."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 8071"
+citation: "New York S 8071 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph P. Addabbo Jr."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-05-15"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3492c2f7-0bb3-4f10-9fe0-97a2cf49fced"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8071"
+source_hash: "cd3cfc9be5ce4db21b289024404adfbfb9cc136d114bda9a8cdab8956cb5cb66"
+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 8071 (2025-2026) — Enacts the avoiding vexatious overuse of impleading to delay (AVOID) act
+
+Enacts the "avoiding vexatious overuse of impleading to delay (AVOID) act" which relates to time frames for certain court filings.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8071** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8071&term=2025&Text=Y)
+2. **S8071A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8071A)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rules Vote - Version: A — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-15** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** PRINT NUMBER 8071A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-12** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-12** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2011
+- **2025-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-06-13** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8728
+- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.692
+- **2025-06-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.704 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.80
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3492c2f7-0bb3-4f10-9fe0-97a2cf49fced`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+