---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempts the East Amherst Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership"
description: "Exempts the East Amherst Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 6703"
citation: "New York S 6703 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["RATH"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-05-12"
last_action: "2021-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0d54adb-f767-4552-ac5a-927f9046b1a3"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S6703"
source_hash: "adc6138096247cbcd3329de13fbe49b76ea94bf126a420399ee81b73dec292de"
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 6703 (2021-2022) — Exempts the East Amherst Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership

Exempts the East Amherst Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

## Version chain

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

1. **S6703** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6703&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- RATH — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-12** REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-24** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-24** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1303
- **2021-06-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-06-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-06-01** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-02** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7630
- **2021-06-02** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.270
- **2021-06-02** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-06-02** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-07-21** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-02** SIGNED CHAP.379 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0d54adb-f767-4552-ac5a-927f9046b1a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).