---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system as the General William Wild Bill Donovan Memorial Highway"
description: "Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route one hundred four in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara as the \"General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan Memorial Highway\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 7827"
citation: "New York S 7827 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["ORTT"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a17c3687-bc9f-4b5b-a0c6-4e4acfb3da83"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S7827"
source_hash: "0d785c8054154dfbb9ba561923fd96becfc8b862ebe0689de8522ee3685f0981"
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 7827 (2017-2018) — Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system as the General William Wild Bill Donovan Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route one hundred four in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara as the "General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan Memorial Highway".

## Version chain

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

1. **S7827 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7827&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S7827 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S7827)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **141–1** (pass) · lower
- Transportation Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- ORTT — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** 1ST REPORT CAL.768
- **2018-04-18** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2018-04-23** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2018-05-16** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-05-16** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-05-16** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10548
- **2018-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.364
- **2018-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2018-09-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-09-25** SIGNED CHAP.276 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a17c3687-bc9f-4b5b-a0c6-4e4acfb3da83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).