---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expands the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority's purposes, powers, and responsibilities to include providing animal management service"
description: "Expands the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority's purposes, powers, and responsibilities to include providing animal management services through a wholly-owned subsidiary; relates to public authorities providing shelter services for the care of unwanted animals or a subsidiary of such public authority that is wholly created for the sole purpose of providing such services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 9434"
citation: "New York S 9434 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["REICHLIN-MELNICK"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-05-27"
last_action: "2022-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36b36285-2ed4-4aa5-99d1-545aed74d103"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S9434"
source_hash: "5feb2f40a054b7f75acfb09ab205956b55d6b063d6e7ef7ef875e3d3b56f1dfe"
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 9434 (2021-2022) — Expands the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority's purposes, powers, and responsibilities to include providing animal management service

Expands the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority's purposes, powers, and responsibilities to include providing animal management services through a wholly-owned subsidiary; relates to public authorities providing shelter services for the care of unwanted animals or a subsidiary of such public authority that is wholly created for the sole purpose of providing such services.

## Version chain

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

1. **S9434** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S9434&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- REICHLIN-MELNICK — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-27** REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1843
- **2022-06-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-06-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-06-01** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10482
- **2022-06-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.654
- **2022-06-03** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-06-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-08-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-08-17** SIGNED CHAP.553 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36b36285-2ed4-4aa5-99d1-545aed74d103`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).