---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts the climate change property tax assessment relief act"
description: "Enacts the \"climate change property tax relief act\"; provides assessment relief to property owners within eligible municipalities; relates to payments of real property tax refunds and credits as a result of participating in the climate change property tax relief act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 7515"
citation: "New York S 7515 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrea Stewart-Cousins"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-06-02"
last_action: "2024-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0be5a519-815b-413d-8246-c2f47f575af0"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7515"
source_hash: "187b857607b8496ec72b100daa51de0b3311184430df11508be8da8832d27d9a"
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 7515 (2023-2024) — Enacts the climate change property tax assessment relief act

Enacts the "climate change property tax relief act"; provides assessment relief to property owners within eligible municipalities; relates to payments of real property tax refunds and credits as a result of participating in the climate change property tax relief act.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7515** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7515&term=2023&Text=Y)
2. **S7515A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S7515A)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **58–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- Local Government Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andrea Stewart-Cousins — primary (person)
- Dean Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Pamela Helming — cosponsor (person)
- Rachel May — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1606
- **2023-06-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-05** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-03** DIED IN ASSEMBLY
- **2024-01-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-01-03** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** 1ST REPORT CAL.88
- **2024-01-09** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2024-01-16** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2024-02-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-02-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-02-13** REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-03** RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
- **2024-06-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-06-03** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
- **2024-06-03** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 7515A `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-06** REPASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-06-06** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-06-06** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7748B
- **2024-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.569
- **2024-06-07** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-06-07** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-12-19** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-12-21** SIGNED CHAP.673 `executive-signature`
- **2024-12-21** APPROVAL MEMO.96

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0be5a519-815b-413d-8246-c2f47f575af0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).