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/s-8887.md

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to enacting provisions for the execution of electronic wills"
+description: "Enacts provisions for the execution of electronic wills including attestation, revocation, filing and storage; requires the chief administrator of the courts to adopt rules necessary and appropriate for electronic wills."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 8887"
+citation: "New York S 8887 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Luis R. Sepúlveda"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-13"
+last_action: "2026-02-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/733009d5-430f-4dd9-8b28-3c3330b7366f"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8887"
+source_hash: "de62db1c65ffb57b8e0e70e1fb3ffcd3a2392f2b79c294aa0c04da238c76f20c"
+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 8887 (2025-2026) — Relates to enacting provisions for the execution of electronic wills
+
+Enacts provisions for the execution of electronic wills including attestation, revocation, filing and storage; requires the chief administrator of the courts to adopt rules necessary and appropriate for electronic wills.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8887&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rules Vote — **13–6** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote — **39–20** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **106–38** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Luis R. Sepúlveda — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-13** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.99
+- **2026-01-28** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2026-01-28** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2026-01-28** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-10** SUBSTITUTED FOR A9497
+- **2026-02-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.67
+- **2026-02-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2026-02-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2026-02-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-02-13** SIGNED CHAP.89 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/733009d5-430f-4dd9-8b28-3c3330b7366f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+