---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides technical assistance to any municipality that has had a college or university close within such municipality"
description: "Directs the department of state, in cooperation with other departments, to provide technical assistance to any municipality, upon request, that has had a college or university close within such municipality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 1525"
citation: "New York S 1525 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rachel May"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-12-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27bb0c40-73e1-4a33-ac32-6c617ac695c4"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1525"
source_hash: "1bb7918c944fcd664b2c43a5d134d74b5f3ee24b08d33b326d306b839e2e86cf"
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 1525 (2025-2026) — Provides technical assistance to any municipality that has had a college or university close within such municipality

Directs the department of state, in cooperation with other departments, to provide technical assistance to any municipality, upon request, that has had a college or university close within such municipality.

## Version chain

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

1. **S1525** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1525&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rachel May — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** REFERRED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** 1ST REPORT CAL.112
- **2025-01-22** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-01-27** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-05-28** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-05-28** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-05-28** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2007
- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.774
- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-12** SIGNED CHAP.631 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-12** APPROVAL MEMO.21

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27bb0c40-73e1-4a33-ac32-6c617ac695c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).