---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the state council on the arts to demonstrate that their principal place of business is within New York state"
description: "Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the New York State council on the arts to provide documentation demonstrating that the organization's principal place of business is within New York State."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 975"
citation: "New York S 975 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["LANZA"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94fb26e0-6268-4fb5-83d4-da710efdf98b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S975"
source_hash: "4368cd91d40df994d301fa9b11ed70ca75ab200e9393a4e4fd695b07fcb03e37"
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 975 (2017-2018) — Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the state council on the arts to demonstrate that their principal place of business is within New York state

Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the New York State council on the arts to provide documentation demonstrating that the organization's principal place of business is within New York State.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S975 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S975&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S975 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S975)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **60–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- LANZA — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.8
- **2017-01-17** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-01-17** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-01-18** REFERRED TO TOURISM, PARKS, ARTS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** SUBSTITUTED FOR A369
- **2017-03-01** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.27
- **2017-03-02** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-03-02** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-03-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-15** SIGNED CHAP.16 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94fb26e0-6268-4fb5-83d4-da710efdf98b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).