---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to property tax credits for farmers"
description: "Relates to property tax credits for farmers; adds property owned in trust to which a taxpayer is a beneficiary to qualified agricultural property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 2899"
citation: "New York S 2899 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["RITCHIE"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-12-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb7a69fb-f61c-4fbd-b495-c9a06d8a9698"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S2899"
source_hash: "7633f48e3b7c0a4ecb66f744c176b0969e7d79aefd63afc4ccc8a4069d826146"
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 2899 (2017-2018) — Relates to property tax credits for farmers

Relates to property tax credits for farmers; adds property owned in trust to which a taxpayer is a beneficiary to qualified agricultural property.

## Version chain

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

1. **S2899 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2899&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S2899 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S2899)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **60–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- RITCHIE — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1622
- **2017-06-15** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-15** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-15** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-15** SUBSTITUTED FOR A4650
- **2017-06-15** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.330
- **2017-06-15** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-15** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-12-18** SIGNED CHAP.485 `executive-signature`
- **2017-12-18** APPROVAL MEMO.52

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb7a69fb-f61c-4fbd-b495-c9a06d8a9698`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).