---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the termination of certain subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children"
description: "Relates to the termination of subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children; replaces references of \"assistance\" with \"subsidy\"; changes the effective date to 90 days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 784"
citation: "New York S 784 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxanne J. Persaud"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-01-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66954135-273a-4552-8dd1-f8f6486ef614"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S784"
source_hash: "1e72d24cefdfb69c0a0bcc498bc706681e618012d8a118c8bee7dc000fa871b9"
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 784 (2025-2026) — Relates to the termination of certain subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children

Relates to the termination of subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children; replaces references of "assistance" with "subsidy"; changes the effective date to 90 days.

## Version chain

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

1. **S784** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S784&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **57–3** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roxanne J. Persaud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.58
- **2025-01-14** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-01-14** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-01-14** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR A917
- **2025-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.18
- **2025-01-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-01-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-01-23** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-01-27** SIGNED CHAP.6 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66954135-273a-4552-8dd1-f8f6486ef614`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).