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type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to service award programs"
description: "Changes the volunteer ambulance service award program to require a mandatory referendum for certain changes and authorizes a lowering of the entitlement to age 55."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 899"
citation: "New York S 899 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["CROCI"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-11-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b98f1c9a-2c57-4816-97e4-90510d87afd3"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S899"
source_hash: "368ca319c6bdae2fa84cc7cb76d72c7af28ebdb2401236f64bb7d8beccab1f8a"
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 899 (2017-2018) — Relates to service award programs
Changes the volunteer ambulance service award program to require a mandatory referendum for certain changes and authorizes a lowering of the entitlement to age 55.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S899 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S899&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S899 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S899)
## Votes
- Floor Vote — **610** (pass) · upper
- Local Government Vote — **90** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **1430** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- CROCI — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-05** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** 1ST REPORT CAL.118
- **2017-02-06** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-02-07** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-02-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-02-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-02-13** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6873
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.540
- **2017-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-11-29** SIGNED CHAP.426 `executive-signature`
- **2017-11-29** APPROVAL MEMO.24
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b98f1c9a-2c57-4816-97e4-90510d87afd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).