---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes a civil penalty when owners refuse to participate in a vacancy survey or submits false vacancy information"
description: "Authorizes a municipality to impose a civil penalty when an owner or their agent refuses to participate in a vacancy survey or submits knowingly and intentionally false vacancy information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8048"
citation: "New York S 8048 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Hinchey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26e0d88f-2354-44cd-b4c0-75128e36a0fb"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8048"
source_hash: "de476e56338ab8bc400eaaf1f058819b019efa40fb6c7540bf476956ce39ca21"
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 8048 (2023-2024) — Authorizes a civil penalty when owners refuse to participate in a vacancy survey or submits false vacancy information

Authorizes a municipality to impose a civil penalty when an owner or their agent refuses to participate in a vacancy survey or submits knowingly and intentionally false vacancy information.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8048** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8048&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Michelle Hinchey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.187
- **2024-01-30** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-01-30** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-01-30** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8499
- **2024-02-27** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.275
- **2024-02-27** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-02-27** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-03-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** SIGNED CHAP.100 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26e0d88f-2354-44cd-b4c0-75128e36a0fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).