---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions"
description: "Allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions; gives special and approved assessing units the authority to tailor their \"cap\" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual uncertainty; relates to adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5958"
citation: "New York S 5958 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-05-08"
last_action: "2017-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aeb58b8-3410-4aad-b851-f8d7a89317d7"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5958"
source_hash: "cc86c496b410ed13b910ad8b64afef68fb4c22c4436eee26160761b6c4a79072"
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 5958 (2017-2018) — Relates to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions

Allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions; gives special and approved assessing units the authority to tailor their "cap" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual uncertainty; relates to adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5958 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5958&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5958 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5958)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **59–4** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **128–15** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **24–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rules Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-12** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1566
- **2017-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-13** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8407
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.522
- **2017-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-07-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-25** SIGNED CHAP.152 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5aeb58b8-3410-4aad-b851-f8d7a89317d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).