---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to water saving performance standards"
description: "Relates to water saving performance standards and establishes certain threshold amounts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 6960"
citation: "New York S 6960 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["KAMINSKY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a479502-c8e2-4da8-8ed2-828b8f87f6d1"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6960"
source_hash: "bd838a7b19906a1c6021fb66da0b5d7ccc460c36e79e69759a70a2068f7a95f0"
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 6960 (2019-2020) — Relates to water saving performance standards

Relates to water saving performance standards and establishes certain threshold amounts.

## Version chain

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

1. **S6960** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6960&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **17–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **140–2** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **56–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- KAMINSKY — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.39
- **2020-01-21** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-01-21** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-01-21** REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8966
- **2020-02-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.370
- **2020-02-03** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-02-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-04-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-04-17** SIGNED CHAP.65 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a479502-c8e2-4da8-8ed2-828b8f87f6d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).