---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to reimbursement of state assistance payments or grants made to municipality or recipient"
description: "Relates to cost recovery by municipalities and other recipients from responsible parties; ensures that responsible parties do not benefit from state assistance payments/grants made by the environmental facilities corporation to municipalities and recipients and unnecessarily burden taxpayers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 956"
citation: "New York S 956 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GAUGHRAN"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2022-12-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b0f7649-b93e-4ce5-8a20-9795145706dc"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S956"
source_hash: "fa9fea43b131b4527a43c566c52b3cbe3455f325f06b652af9de7dc75d8850f0"
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 956 (2021-2022) — Relates to reimbursement of state assistance payments or grants made to municipality or recipient

Relates to cost recovery by municipalities and other recipients from responsible parties; ensures that responsible parties do not benefit from state assistance payments/grants made by the environmental facilities corporation to municipalities and recipients and unnecessarily burden taxpayers.

## Version chain

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

1. **S956** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S956&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Health Vote — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- GAUGHRAN — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** 1ST REPORT CAL.656
- **2021-04-20** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2021-04-21** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2021-04-27** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-04-27** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-04-27** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-05** DIED IN ASSEMBLY
- **2022-01-05** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-01-05** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-24** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-24** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1491
- **2022-05-24** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-05-24** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
- **2022-05-24** REPASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-05-24** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-05-24** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-31** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2620
- **2022-05-31** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.441
- **2022-05-31** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-05-31** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-12-16** SIGNED CHAP.707 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b0f7649-b93e-4ce5-8a20-9795145706dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).