---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act"
description: "Modifies the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act to allow for the conversion of certain motions to become motions to return a respondent to foster care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 815"
citation: "New York S 815 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Hoylman-Sigal"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7ff6ae5-b5d0-4e1c-ae7b-a0ae0bec4e50"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S815"
source_hash: "33457d4b6a31a4ced620919c14d5cda6f4b945438b7d78630eeddcf26e3cb003"
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 815 (2025-2026) — Relates to the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act

Modifies the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act to allow for the conversion of certain motions to become motions to return a respondent to foster care.

## Version chain

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

1. **S815** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S815&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **60–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **116–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brad Hoylman-Sigal — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.89
- **2025-01-14** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-01-14** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-01-14** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR A922
- **2025-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.19
- **2025-02-11** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-02-11** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-14** SIGNED CHAP.94 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7ff6ae5-b5d0-4e1c-ae7b-a0ae0bec4e50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).