---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the village incorporation commission"
description: "Relates to the village incorporation commission and makes conforming technical changes; amends the effectiveness of legislative bills numbers S. 7537 and A. 7761."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8001"
citation: "New York S 8001 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrea Stewart-Cousins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-01-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53f60331-5b0c-4b09-9ef1-40bbfa20f656"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8001"
source_hash: "a579896f57d07e2a5fa59f9ecfa7c1712d1869f675d63a5d85e36eeb31dcfda7"
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 8001 (2023-2024) — Relates to the village incorporation commission

Relates to the village incorporation commission and makes conforming technical changes; amends the effectiveness of legislative bills numbers S. 7537 and A. 7761.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8001&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **97–51** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **41–21** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andrea Stewart-Cousins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.10
- **2024-01-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-01-09** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-01-09** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8573
- **2024-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.13
- **2024-01-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-01-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-01-26** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-26** SIGNED CHAP.7 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53f60331-5b0c-4b09-9ef1-40bbfa20f656`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).