---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to minimum maintenance roads in designated towns"
description: "Provides that provisions relating to minimum maintenance roads in designated towns shall be construed as limiting, diminishing or otherwise affecting the powers of any municipality other than the designated town."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8045"
citation: "New York S 8045 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Walczyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50c4de88-50d1-456a-b5a5-84063c18946f"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8045"
source_hash: "388ab1303de8395425709259ccd6477ecc6afd93bfec9262a16543720d75ef1a"
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 8045 (2023-2024) — Relates to minimum maintenance roads in designated towns

Provides that provisions relating to minimum maintenance roads in designated towns shall be construed as limiting, diminishing or otherwise affecting the powers of any municipality other than the designated town.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8045** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8045&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **57–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Walczyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.184
- **2024-02-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-02-12** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-02-12** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8498
- **2024-03-04** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.334
- **2024-03-04** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2024-03-04** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-03-04** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-03-22** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22** SIGNED CHAP.108 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50c4de88-50d1-456a-b5a5-84063c18946f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).