---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to public awareness and involvement in the thirty by thirty conservation plan"
description: "Requires the department of environmental conservation to post draft strategies and methodology developed no later than July 1, 2024; requires at least one public hearing and posting of the final goal strategies and methodology on such department's website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 2222"
citation: "New York S 2222 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pete Harckham"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc703094-ffd1-4a83-b72c-de3460560852"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2222"
source_hash: "b5dcf148b62b17eebb40776a157f1d5567270e9c039f54f3fcca8268b4bdd99c"
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 2222 (2023-2024) — Relates to public awareness and involvement in the thirty by thirty conservation plan

Requires the department of environmental conservation to post draft strategies and methodology developed no later than July 1, 2024; requires at least one public hearing and posting of the final goal strategies and methodology on such department's website.

## Version chain

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

1. **S2222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2222&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **56–7** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **102–42** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pete Harckham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.159
- **2023-02-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-02-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-02-01** REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** SUBSTITUTED FOR A606
- **2023-02-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.79
- **2023-03-15** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-03-15** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-03-24** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24** SIGNED CHAP.119 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc703094-ffd1-4a83-b72c-de3460560852`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).