---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library"
description: "Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library at twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 3594"
citation: "New York S 3594 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pete Harckham"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-10-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25fe5471-9742-42a6-b867-a65a9e394cb3"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S3594"
source_hash: "df9ad6d4981a5804ff5119d63680d91e332d46d99b68998b44324f885fe1c07e"
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 3594 (2023-2024) — Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library

Sets the number of petitioners necessary to call for a vote on increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library at twenty-five qualified voters of a municipality.

## Version chain

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

1. **S3594** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S3594&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **58–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Libraries Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pete Harckham — primary (person)
- Iwen Chu — cosponsor (person)
- Jake Ashby — cosponsor (person)
- James Skoufis — cosponsor (person)
- Rachel May — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** REFERRED TO LIBRARIES `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** 1ST REPORT CAL.1209
- **2023-05-24** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-05-30** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-05-31** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-05-31** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-31** REFERRED TO LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5266
- **2023-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.628
- **2023-06-07** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-07** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-10-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-25** SIGNED CHAP.587 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25fe5471-9742-42a6-b867-a65a9e394cb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).