---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extends the village of Goshen's authority to impose a hotel and motel tax"
description: "Extends the village of Goshen's authority to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to five percent for an additional two years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 4495"
citation: "New York S 4495 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Skoufis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a6c602e-9825-4ae8-a035-32736a0421d4"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4495"
source_hash: "b3d76ce7c071fa47cb34d9962cabae04ab5117669cd2b357f90ab7aab9d482c1"
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 4495 (2025-2026) — Extends the village of Goshen's authority to impose a hotel and motel tax

Extends the village of Goshen's authority to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to five percent for an additional two years.

## Version chain

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

1. **S4495** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4495&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **45–14** (pass) · upper
- Investigations And Government Operations Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **107–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Skoufis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** 1ST REPORT CAL.814
- **2025-04-30** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-05-01** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-05-27** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-05-27** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-05-27** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7968
- **2025-06-17** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.909
- **2025-06-17** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-17** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-08-04** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-07** SIGNED CHAP.270 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a6c602e-9825-4ae8-a035-32736a0421d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).