---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the city of Yonkers to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands"
description: "Authorizes the city of Yonkers to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 8271"
citation: "New York S 8271 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrea Stewart-Cousins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-05-28"
last_action: "2025-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dffbc5f0-cde3-4aed-b5e3-b8fc82713237"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8271"
source_hash: "2c295d53a65cb4c1b97330cad6937d2c3662ad4f09a9fa21eddac2aff2d4af96"
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 8271 (2025-2026) — Authorizes the city of Yonkers to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands

Authorizes the city of Yonkers to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8271** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8271&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **125–11** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andrea Stewart-Cousins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28** REFERRED TO CITIES 2 `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1721
- **2025-06-09** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-09** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-09** REFERRED TO CITIES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8677
- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.687
- **2025-06-13** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-08-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-15** SIGNED CHAP.337 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dffbc5f0-cde3-4aed-b5e3-b8fc82713237`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).