---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides a television writers' and directors' fees and salaries credit"
description: "Provides a television writers' and directors' fees and salaries credit; provides that to be eligible the writer or director is a minority group member, or a woman, and provides, further, that any writer or director who is a profit participant in the qualified production shall not be eligible."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 5864"
citation: "New York S 5864 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["JACKSON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-05-15"
last_action: "2019-12-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae4991a-3990-45f1-bb14-345f1c5a76bc"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S5864"
source_hash: "7d9f4539254aa155df87c3f5e9cd00fbbf299c84badcda5c9aa516f3e45b3d8e"
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 5864 (2019-2020) — Provides a television writers' and directors' fees and salaries credit

Provides a television writers' and directors' fees and salaries credit; provides that to be eligible the writer or director is a minority group member, or a woman, and provides, further, that any writer or director who is a profit participant in the qualified production shall not be eligible.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5864** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5864&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **S5864A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S5864A)

## Votes

- Rules Vote - Version: A — **16–3** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **44–18** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **111–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- JACKSON — primary (person)
- BAILEY — cosponsor (person)
- BENJAMIN — cosponsor (person)
- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
- GOUNARDES — cosponsor (person)
- KAPLAN — cosponsor (person)
- KENNEDY — cosponsor (person)
- MAY — cosponsor (person)
- MYRIE — cosponsor (person)
- PERSAUD — cosponsor (person)
- RAMOS — cosponsor (person)
- SALAZAR — cosponsor (person)
- SANDERS — cosponsor (person)
- SEPULVEDA — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-15** REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-10** PRINT NUMBER 5864A `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-14** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1403
- **2019-06-14** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-14** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-14** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6683B
- **2019-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.594
- **2019-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-12-18** SIGNED CHAP.683 `executive-signature`
- **2019-12-18** APPROVAL MEMO.60

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ae4991a-3990-45f1-bb14-345f1c5a76bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).