---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to retroactively granting the Brockport Volunteer Ambulance Corps. tax exempt status"
description: "Grants the Brockport Volunteer Ambulance Corps tax exempt status from the Town of Sweden retroactively."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5531"
citation: "New York S 5531 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["ORTT"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-04-06"
last_action: "2017-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a0a1d96-df34-4c6a-9bfb-91204c1c0e0c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5531"
source_hash: "ab83d5e20c28c7874b699892d482833a51e49dd837801c0a63f895e1a85f8549"
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 5531 (2017-2018) — Relates to retroactively granting the Brockport Volunteer Ambulance Corps. tax exempt status

Grants the Brockport Volunteer Ambulance Corps tax exempt status from the Town of Sweden retroactively.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5531 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5531&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5531 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5531)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–1** (pass) · upper
- Local Government Vote — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- ORTT — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-06** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-23** 1ST REPORT CAL.1281
- **2017-05-24** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-06-05** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-19** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7215
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.602
- **2017-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-08-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-08-21** SIGNED CHAP.251 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a0a1d96-df34-4c6a-9bfb-91204c1c0e0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).