---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the Grand Island Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association"
description: "Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Grand Island Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 7440"
citation: "New York S 7440 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sean Ryan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-05-25"
last_action: "2023-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ed385db-1caf-47ca-afa6-06df64aaca99"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7440"
source_hash: "e944557a5e2f9a45ed3434eac144083b28fd73ea35944c20bf9ff1fc09e9ecfc"
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 7440 (2023-2024) — Relates to the Grand Island Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Grand Island Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7440** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7440&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sean Ryan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-25** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1720
- **2023-06-07** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-07** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-07** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7276
- **2023-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.774
- **2023-06-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-09** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-09-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-09-15** SIGNED CHAP.466 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ed385db-1caf-47ca-afa6-06df64aaca99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).