---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system as the \"Gold Star Families Memorial Highway\""
description: "Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the \"Gold Star Families Memorial Highway\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 8861"
citation: "New York S 8861 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["LARKIN"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-05-29"
last_action: "2018-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88157c04-94fb-43d5-b19c-e1e7dbf35935"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S8861"
source_hash: "867854e179dbfdc140a075982ee0b62d9461dd6c49255a92f79a2b7ad3c24974"
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 8861 (2017-2018) — Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway"

Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".

## Version chain

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

1. **S8861 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8861&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S8861 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S8861)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- LARKIN — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-29** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1688
- **2018-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-06-11** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-06-11** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A11033
- **2018-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.389
- **2018-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2018-09-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-10-02** SIGNED CHAP.321 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88157c04-94fb-43d5-b19c-e1e7dbf35935`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).