New York A 5405: Relates to void provisions in construction contracts

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 - This bill is not active in this session.

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A05405 Summary:

BILL NOA05405 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS S05655

&nbsp

SPONSORHunter

&nbsp

COSPNSRStirpe, Jacobson

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §757, Gen Bus L

&nbsp

Voids provisions in construction contracts requiring retainage as expressly provided for by section seven hundred fifty-six-c of the general business law in an amount exceeding five percent of the contract sum.

Go to top A05405 Actions:

BILL NOA05405 

&nbsp

02/13/2025referred to economic development

05/13/2025reported 

05/15/2025advanced to third reading cal.151

05/22/2025passed assembly

05/22/2025delivered to senate

05/22/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S5655

06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1412

06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

12/08/2025delivered to governor

12/19/2025signed chap.654

12/19/2025approval memo.36

Go to topA05405 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Chair:Stirpe 
DATE:05/13/2025AYE/NAY:26/0 Action: Favorable StirpeAyeFriendAye

MagnarelliAyeMorinelloAye

LupardoAyeLemondesAye

HyndmanAyeBrownAye

SternAyeBeephanAye

TapiaAyePirozzoloAye

LucasAyeBrook-KrasnyAye

CunninghamAyeBolognaAye

SimoneAye

ZaccaroAye

DaisAye

GriffinAye

TorresAye

HooksAye

LasherAye

KayAye

WrightAye

KassayAye

Go to topA05405 Floor&nbspVotes:

DATE:05/22/2025Assembly Vote YEA/NAY: 138/0ER 

Alvarez 

Yes 

Carroll P 

Yes 

Friend 

Yes 

Lee 

Yes 

Peoples-Stokes 

Yes 

Slater 

Yes 

Anderson 

Yes 

Carroll RC 

Yes 

Gallagher 

Yes 

Lemondes 

ER 

Pheffer Amato 

Yes 

Smith 

Yes 

Angelino 

Yes 

Chandler-Waterm 

Yes 

Gallahan 

Yes 

Levenberg 

Yes 

Pirozzolo 

Yes 

Smullen 

Yes 

Bailey 

Yes 

Chang 

Yes 

Gandolfo 

ER 

Lucas 

Yes 

Pretlow 

Yes &#8225

Solages 

Yes 

Barclay 

Yes 

Chludzinski 

Yes 

Gibbs 

Yes 

Lunsford 

Yes 

Ra 

Yes 

Steck 

Yes 

Barrett 

Yes 

Clark 

Yes 

Giglio 

Yes 

Lupardo 

Yes &#8225

Raga 

ER 

Stern 

Yes 

Beephan 

Yes 

Colton 

Yes 

Glick 

Yes 

Magnarelli 

Yes &#8225

Rajkumar 

Yes 

Stirpe 

Yes 

Bendett 

Yes 

Conrad 

Yes 

Gonzalez-Rojas 

ER 

Maher 

Yes 

Ramos 

Yes 

Tague 

Yes 

Benedetto 

Yes 

Cook 

Yes 

Gray 

ER 

Mamdani 

Yes 

Reilly 

Yes 

Tannousis 

Yes 

Berger 

Yes 

Cruz 

Yes 

Griffin 

Yes 

Manktelow 

ER 

Reyes 

Yes 

Tapia 

Yes 

Bichotte Hermel 

Yes 

Cunningham 

Yes 

Hawley 

Yes 

McDonald 

Yes 

Rivera 

Yes 

Taylor 

Yes 

Blankenbush 

Yes 

Dais 

Yes 

Hevesi 

ER 

McDonough 

Yes 

Romero 

Yes 

Torres 

Yes &#8225

Blumencranz 

Yes 

Davila 

Yes 

Hooks 

Yes 

McMahon 

Yes 

Rosenthal 

Yes 

Valdez 

Yes 

Bologna 

Yes 

De Los Santos 

Yes 

Hunter 

Yes 

Meeks 

Yes 

Rozic 

ER 

Vanel 

Yes 

Bores 

Yes 

DeStefano 

ER 

Hyndman 

Yes 

Mikulin 

Yes 

Santabarbara 

Yes &#8225

Walker 

Yes 

Brabenec 

Yes 

Dilan 

Yes 

Jackson 

Yes 

Miller 

Yes 

Sayegh 

Yes 

Walsh 

Yes 

Braunstein 

Yes 

Dinowitz 

Yes 

Jacobson 

ER 

Mitaynes 

Yes 

Schiavoni 

Yes 

Weprin 

Yes 

Bronson 

Yes &#8225

DiPietro 

Yes 

Jensen 

Yes 

Molitor 

ER 

Seawright 

Yes 

Wieder 

Yes 

Brook-Krasny 

Yes 

Durso 

Yes 

Jones 

Yes 

Morinello 

Yes 

Sempolinski 

Yes 

Williams 

Yes 

Brown EA 

Yes 

Eachus 

Yes 

Kassay 

Yes 

Norber 

Yes 

Septimo 

Yes 

Woerner 

Yes 

Brown K 

Yes 

Eichenstein 

Yes 

Kay 

Yes 

Novakhov 

Yes 

Shimsky 

Yes 

Wright 

Yes 

Burdick 

Yes 

Epstein 

Yes 

Kelles 

Yes 

O'Pharrow 

Yes 

Shrestha 

Yes 

Yeger 

Yes &#8225

Burke 

Yes 

Fall 

Yes 

Kim 

Yes 

Otis 

Yes 

Simon 

Yes 

Zaccaro 

Yes 

Burroughs 

Yes 

Fitzpatrick 

Yes 

Lasher 

Yes 

Palmesano 

Yes 

Simone 

Yes 

Zinerman 

Yes 

Buttenschon 

Yes 

Forrest 

Yes 

Lavine 

Yes 

Paulin 

Yes 

Simpson 

Yes 

Mr. Speaker 

 &#8225 Indicates voting via videoconference 

Go to topA05405 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5405

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Economic Development

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to void provisions
 in construction contracts

 The People of the State of New York, represented