---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin"
description: "Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 4457"
citation: "New York S 4457 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean Murray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19f21e5b-3522-4c4c-8adc-a979d66b0b9b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4457"
source_hash: "811123edd12b14797a0d1abfb60774a0f590136b9b81725bcadbaf5b5e9ec7f4"
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 4457 (2025-2026) — Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands.

## Version chain

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

1. **S4457** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4457&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S4457A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S4457A)
3. **S4457B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S4457B)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **136–10** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: B — **57–1** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote - Version: B — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dean Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** PRINT NUMBER 4457A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-07** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** PRINT NUMBER 4457B `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-09** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1619
- **2025-06-10** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-10** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-10** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5477B
- **2025-06-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.614
- **2025-06-11** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-11** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-11** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-08-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-15** SIGNED CHAP.328 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19f21e5b-3522-4c4c-8adc-a979d66b0b9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).