New York A 10643: Relates to requiring telephone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery units and to provide one backup battery unit to each customer every three years

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A10643 Summary:

BILL NOA10643 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09839

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SPONSORPeoples-Stokes

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §54.30, Loc Fin L

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Facilitates the marketing of any issue of serial bonds or notes of the city of Buffalo issued on or before June 30, 2027.

Go to top A10643 Actions:

BILL NOA10643 

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03/19/2026referred to cities

05/21/2026reported referred to ways and means

05/28/2026reported referred to rules

05/28/2026reported 

05/28/2026rules report cal.241

05/28/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.241

05/29/2026substituted by s9839

&nbspS09839 AMEND= BASKIN

&nbsp04/07/2026REFERRED TO CITIES 2

&nbsp05/18/20261ST REPORT CAL.1132

&nbsp05/19/20262ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp05/20/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp05/28/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/28/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp05/28/2026referred to ways and means

&nbsp05/29/2026substituted for a10643

&nbsp05/29/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.241

&nbsp05/29/2026home rule request

&nbsp05/29/2026passed assembly

&nbsp05/29/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp06/18/2026DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp06/26/2026SIGNED CHAP.161

Go to topA10643 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CITIES Chair:Burke 
DATE:05/21/2026AYE/NAY:15/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means BurkeAyeChangAye

JacobsonAyeTannousisAye

RamosAyeBrook-KrasnyAye

FallAyeNovakhovAye

Gonzalez-RojasAyeBolognaExcused

JacksonAye

BronsonAye

DaisAye

ValdezAye

AlvarezAye

PowersAye

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:05/28/2026AYE/NAY:27/2 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyePalmesanoAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickNay

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

BenedettoExcusedWalshNay

WeprinAyeDeStefanoAye

RamosAbsentManktelowAye

BraunsteinAyeSmullenExcused

McDonaldAyeGiglioExcused

RozicAyeSlaterAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAbsent

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

SeptimoAye

HevesiAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/28/2026AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeBrabenecAye

DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

MagnarelliAyeSmithAye

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA10643 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA10643 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10643

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 19, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Cities

 AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in relation to facilitating the
 marketing of any issue of serial bonds or notes of the city of Buffalo
 issued on or before a certain date

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 54.30 of the local finance law, as amended by chap-
 2 ter 149 of the laws of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 54.30 Costs of sales; bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
 4 Subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred twenty-two of the laws
 5 of two thousand three creating the Buffalo fiscal stability authority,
 6 to facilitate the marketing of any issue of serial bonds or notes of the
 7 city of Buffalo issued on or before June thirtieth, two thousand [twen-
 8 ty-six] twenty-seven, such city may, notwithstanding any limitations on
 9 private sales of bonds provided by law, and subject to approval by the
 10 state comptroller of the terms and conditions of such sale: (a) arrange
 11 for the underwriting of its bonds or notes at private sale through nego-
 12 tiated agreement, compensation for such underwriting to be provided by
 13 negotiated fee or by sale of such bonds or notes to an underwriter at a
 14 price of less than the sum of par value of, and the accrued interest on,
 15 such obligations; or (b) arrange for the private sale of its bonds or
 16 notes through negotiated agreement, compensation for such sales to be
 17 provided by negotiated fee, if required. The cost of such underwri