---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters"
description: "Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "A 6624"
citation: "New York A 6624 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stacey Pheffer Amato"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7345d047-404d-42ae-ac7b-30ffb47f3b9f"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A6624"
source_hash: "9a3a54a3d0d5d2196a40f2d6538e49e0740276e040a234852efeab9067cf173b"
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 A 6624 (2025-2026) — Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters

Requires appointing authorities to provide appointment and promotion letters when extending an offer of appointment or promotion to a position in the classified service.

## Version chain

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

1. **A6624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A6624&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **59–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stacey Pheffer Amato — primary (person)
- Judy Griffin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** REPORTED
- **2025-05-21** RULES REPORT CAL.226
- **2025-05-21** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.226
- **2025-05-21** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-05-21** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2025-05-21** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR S5760
- **2025-06-11** 3RD READING CAL.949
- **2025-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-11** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.657 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.38

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7345d047-404d-42ae-ac7b-30ffb47f3b9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).