---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the assessor of the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk, to accept from the Joshua Baptist Church, an application for exemption from real property taxes"
description: "Authorizes the assessor of the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk, to accept from the Joshua Baptist Church, an application for exemption from real property taxes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 6869"
citation: "New York S 6869 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GAUGHRAN"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-11-22"
last_action: "2020-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ed98d19-db39-4874-accf-f85a2783951a"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6869"
source_hash: "20b0ed8f92c2875fb699a1a0885a3b4af62259b444912dc4db507b200b8a9061"
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 6869 (2019-2020) — Authorizes the assessor of the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk, to accept from the Joshua Baptist Church, an application for exemption from real property taxes

Authorizes the assessor of the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk, to accept from the Joshua Baptist Church, an application for exemption from real property taxes.

## Version chain

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

1. **S6869** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6869&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **S6869A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S6869A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
- Local Government Vote - Version: A — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **58–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- GAUGHRAN — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-22** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-16** PRINT NUMBER 6869A `amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-27** 1ST REPORT CAL.278
- **2020-01-28** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2020-01-29** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2020-02-27** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-02-27** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-02-27** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10221
- **2020-06-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.138
- **2020-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-06-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-09-16** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-09-21** SIGNED CHAP.187 `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-21** APPROVAL MEMO.9

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ed98d19-db39-4874-accf-f85a2783951a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).