---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts the \"roadway excavation quality assurance act\""
description: "Enacts the \"roadway excavation quality assurance act\"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, or open a street is required to be issued."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 4887"
citation: "New York S 4887 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Gianaris"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68c282ef-601a-49bd-94a2-b309ed51a504"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S4887"
source_hash: "3f7bcad687eb227a15aaa98bc9d0d2cbd989c77fc9a743b257659b69423a4db1"
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 4887 (2023-2024) — Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"

Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, or open a street is required to be issued.

## Version chain

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

1. **S4887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4887&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **132–16** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **53–8** (pass) · upper
- Labor Vote — **12–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Gianaris — primary (person)
- Alexis Weik — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Gounardes — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony H. Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Hoylman-Sigal — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- Gustavo Rivera — cosponsor (person)
- Jabari Brisport — cosponsor (person)
- Jamaal Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- James Sanders Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James Skoufis — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Cooney — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- John Liu — cosponsor (person)
- John Mannion — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- José M. Serrano — cosponsor (person)
- Julia Salazar — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Kristen Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- Leroy Comrie — cosponsor (person)
- Luis R. Sepúlveda — cosponsor (person)
- Mario Mattera — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Hinchey — cosponsor (person)
- Neil D. Breslin — cosponsor (person)
- Pete Harckham — cosponsor (person)
- Rachel May — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Rolison — cosponsor (person)
- Roxanne J. Persaud — cosponsor (person)
- Samra Brouk — cosponsor (person)
- Shelley Mayer — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy M. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
- Toby Ann Stavisky — cosponsor (person)
- Zellnor Myrie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** 1ST REPORT CAL.653
- **2023-04-26** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-05-01** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-06-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-05** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5608
- **2023-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.629
- **2023-06-08** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-08** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-08-16** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-08-16** SIGNED CHAP.278 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68c282ef-601a-49bd-94a2-b309ed51a504`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).