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Bill	Replaces all instances of the words councilman or councilmen with the words council member or council members	Replaces all instances of the words councilman or councilmen with the words council member or council members.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2021-2022	A 8272	New York A 8272 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted	WOERNER	2	15	2	2021-08-25	2022-08-17	openstates	ocd-bill/3b3c1764-f5d9-48f3-8403-093a46ee011c	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A8272	9ee30a0e801c9dd0389a09651224e07a7946cb5ee9b9e37f7be8ea184f9c4da4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ny

New York A 8272 (2021-2022) — Replaces all instances of the words councilman or councilmen with the words council member or council members

Replaces all instances of the words councilman or councilmen with the words council member or council members.

Version chain

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

1. A8272 (committee substitute) — source
2. A8272A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Assembly Vote — 138–5 (pass) · lower
• Floor Vote - Version: A — 61–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• WOERNER — primary (person)
• ABINANTI — cosponsor (person)
• BARRETT — cosponsor (person)
• BRONSON — cosponsor (person)
• DINOWITZ — cosponsor (person)
• ENGLEBRIGHT — cosponsor (person)
• GALEF — cosponsor (person)
• GLICK — cosponsor (person)
• GOTTFRIED — cosponsor (person)
• GRIFFIN — cosponsor (person)
• GUNTHER — cosponsor (person)
• JACOBSON — cosponsor (person)
• JONES — cosponsor (person)
• KELLES — cosponsor (person)
• LAWLER — cosponsor (person)
• LUNSFORD — cosponsor (person)
• MAGNARELLI — cosponsor (person)
• MCDONALD — cosponsor (person)
• O'DONNELL — cosponsor (person)
• OTIS — cosponsor (person)
• ROSENTHAL L — cosponsor (person)
• ROZIC — cosponsor (person)
• SEAWRIGHT — cosponsor (person)
• SIMON — cosponsor (person)
• SMITH — cosponsor (person)
• STECK — cosponsor (person)
• STIRPE — cosponsor (person)
• THIELE — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-08-25 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS referral-committee
• 2021-09-15 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-09-15 PRINT NUMBER 8272A amendment-passage
• 2022-01-05 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 REPORTED
• 2022-01-20 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.296
• 2022-01-25 PASSED ASSEMBLY passage
• 2022-01-25 DELIVERED TO SENATE
• 2022-01-25 REFERRED TO CITIES 2 referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 SUBSTITUTED FOR S7389
• 2022-05-18 3RD READING CAL.1162
• 2022-05-18 PASSED SENATE passage
• 2022-05-18 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• 2022-08-05 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2022-08-17 SIGNED CHAP.513 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b3c1764-f5d9-48f3-8403-093a46ee011c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).