---
type: "Bill"
title: "Updates the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter"
description: "Updates the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter; amends the purposes of such organization and the permitted uses of certain insurance premium taxes collected."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 8306"
citation: "New York S 8306 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Ortt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-05-30"
last_action: "2025-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bf42881-08b1-4da4-9719-1e84615e1185"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8306"
source_hash: "a52d017c0e27bdf604a2487104f5b736ad53b8f8a4d6307133d952c01e246a9d"
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 8306 (2025-2026) — Updates the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter

Updates the South Lockport Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter; amends the purposes of such organization and the permitted uses of certain insurance premium taxes collected.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8306** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8306&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S8306A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8306A)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote - Version: A — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Ortt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-30** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** PRINT NUMBER 8306A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2019
- **2025-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-13** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8774A
- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.847
- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-09-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-09-10** SIGNED CHAP.410 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bf42881-08b1-4da4-9719-1e84615e1185`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).