---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the fund"
description: "Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "A 6918"
citation: "New York A 6918 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Didi Barrett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-11-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/524b1a44-6138-4735-b9ab-9166b61df0c0"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A6918"
source_hash: "3f79d686041b238788975d451448a90534805f44462e5fe8915eb4ebd709d0b0"
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 6918 (2025-2026) — Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the fund

Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof.

## Version chain

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

1. **A6918** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A6918&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **A6918A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A6918A)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: A — **40–19** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **100–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Didi Barrett — primary (person)
- Tommy Schiavoni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES 6918A `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** REPORTED
- **2025-05-29** RULES REPORT CAL.332
- **2025-05-29** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.332
- **2025-06-12** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-12** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2025-06-12** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6664A
- **2025-06-12** 3RD READING CAL.1885
- **2025-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-12** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-11-21** SIGNED CHAP.524 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/524b1a44-6138-4735-b9ab-9166b61df0c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).