---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton"
description: "Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton from two to four years; provides for the staggering of such terms of office; further provides that at the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years and the remaining four successful candidates shall hold office for a term of two years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 6331"
citation: "New York S 6331 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["PALUMBO"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-22"
last_action: "2021-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96376314-e7fd-440f-af12-6b33dee689d7"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6331"
source_hash: "9524fc0d51566f9873bda59dd861e22c3ed62d0d13a4abbe181847e33e5abcc8"
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 6331 (2021-2022) — Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton

Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton from two to four years; provides for the staggering of such terms of office; further provides that at the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years and the remaining four successful candidates shall hold office for a term of two years.

## Version chain

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

1. **S6331** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6331&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–1** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- PALUMBO — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-22** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-03** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1497
- **2021-06-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-06-08** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-06-08** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7030
- **2021-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.673
- **2021-06-09** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2021-06-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-06-09** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-07-21** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-02** SIGNED CHAP.366 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96376314-e7fd-440f-af12-6b33dee689d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).