---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario"
description: "Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites from 120 to 75 at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario, for purposes of an exemption on restrictions on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 8840"
citation: "New York S 8840 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HELMING"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-05-24"
last_action: "2018-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23b94d3b-5ed0-4824-a7d5-c169dd756782"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S8840"
source_hash: "bb014935954b93a4f4bc0480e68598f57fe848058aae7e71a77a2a82c7940dd5"
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 8840 (2017-2018) — Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario

Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites from 120 to 75 at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario, for purposes of an exemption on restrictions on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8840 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8840&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S8840 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S8840)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **141–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HELMING — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-24** REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1889
- **2018-06-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-06-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-06-19** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10915
- **2018-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.378
- **2018-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2018-08-27** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-09-07** SIGNED CHAP.269 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23b94d3b-5ed0-4824-a7d5-c169dd756782`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).