---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more"
description: "Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more for abatements taken in a tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand twenty-five; provides that no such childcare center tax abatement shall be authorized for any tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand thirty-two; extends the deadline for application for such childcare center tax abatement to March fifteenth, two thousand twenty-seven."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 7685"
citation: "New York S 7685 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxanne J. Persaud"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-29"
last_action: "2025-12-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64fcc97a-a8cb-41ee-a7c8-9bcf6ef81a6c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7685"
source_hash: "1089b834286f82f2511a9ad1b5ba5ed774d711939afa4a48c7ac1533f434944c"
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 7685 (2025-2026) — Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more

Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more for abatements taken in a tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand twenty-five; provides that no such childcare center tax abatement shall be authorized for any tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand thirty-two; extends the deadline for application for such childcare center tax abatement to March fifteenth, two thousand twenty-seven.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7685** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7685&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **57–3** (pass) · upper
- Cities 1 Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roxanne J. Persaud — primary (person)
- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-29** REFERRED TO CITIES 1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** 1ST REPORT CAL.1197
- **2025-05-21** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-05-22** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-06-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-05** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8028
- **2025-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.460
- **2025-06-06** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-06** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-05** SIGNED CHAP.609 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64fcc97a-a8cb-41ee-a7c8-9bcf6ef81a6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).