---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the incorporation of villages; repealer"
description: "Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages containing one thousand five hundred persons or less; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the village law relating to the incorporation of villages, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7538 and A.7754."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8007"
citation: "New York S 8007 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Skoufis"]
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/1f02c2bc-c96f-4ce0-acd2-0ca436e0e5f5"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8007"
source_hash: "9bac78b87cca14fa73c22809c4b0d0a16b3e661c5c79fc9f60124fe392b81bd9"
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 8007 (2023-2024) — Relates to the incorporation of villages; repealer

Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages containing one thousand five hundred persons or less; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the village law relating to the incorporation of villages, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7538 and A.7754.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8007** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8007&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **14–7** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **97–51** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **40–22** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Skoufis — 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.16
- **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 A8572
- **2024-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.12
- **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.10 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f02c2bc-c96f-4ce0-acd2-0ca436e0e5f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).