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type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the town of Highlands to impose a hotel and motel tax"
description: "Authorizes the town of Highlands, Orange county, to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to five percent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 7836"
citation: "New York S 7836 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Skoufis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-05-09"
last_action: "2025-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52bbee1c-ffa4-4e81-bbe9-c2f97c8cda14"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7836"
source_hash: "37cffedc5b673a547348bd81c7d66a81b86cb0d2817be569a55261feaf7fce9b"
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 7836 (2025-2026) — Authorizes the town of Highlands to impose a hotel and motel tax
Authorizes the town of Highlands, Orange county, to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to five percent.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S7836** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7836&term=2025&Text=Y)
## Votes
- Floor Vote — **45–14** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **15–5** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **92–44** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- James Skoufis — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-09** REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1908
- **2025-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-12** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-12** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8347
- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.6813
- **2025-06-13** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2025-06-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-10-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-10-16** SIGNED CHAP.474 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52bbee1c-ffa4-4e81-bbe9-c2f97c8cda14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).