New York A 8070: Authorizes the lease of certain lands of state university of New York at Stony Brook for the purpose of building undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty and staff housing

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A08070 Summary:

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Directs the state university trustees, without any public bidding, to lease and otherwise contract to make a portion of the lands of SUNY Stony Brook on its campus to the Stony Brook Housing Development Corp. for the purpose of building undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty and staff housing; limits such lease to a period not exceeding 100 years.

Go to top A08070 Actions:

BILL NOA08070 

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04/24/2025referred to higher education

05/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

06/04/2025reported referred to rules

06/06/2025reported 

06/06/2025rules report cal.461

06/06/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.461

06/06/2025substituted by s7616a

&nbspS07616 AMEND=A MARTINEZ

&nbsp04/23/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

&nbsp04/28/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

&nbsp04/28/2025PRINT NUMBER 7616A

&nbsp05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1181

&nbsp05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp06/05/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/05/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/05/2025referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/06/2025substituted for a8070

&nbsp06/06/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.461

&nbsp06/06/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/06/2025returned to senate

&nbsp09/17/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp09/17/2025SIGNED CHAP.413

Go to topA08070 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HIGHER EDUCATION Chair:Hyndman 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:26/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means HyndmanAyeSmullenAye

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EachusAye

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Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/04/2025AYE/NAY:33/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye

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BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye

McDonaldAyeSmullenAye

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DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAbsent

BronsonAye

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SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/06/2025AYE/NAY:27/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickExcusedRaAye

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ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliExcusedReillyAye

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BraunsteinAye

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HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA08070 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08070 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8070

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 24, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Higher Education

 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the lease of certain lands for the
 purpose of building undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty
 and staff housing

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds and declares
 2 that the state university of New York at Stony Brook ("Stony Brook") is
 3 one of the State's flagship universities with hundreds of millions of
 4 dollars in federal research, is the region's largest on-site employer,
 5 and, through Stony Brook Medicine, is Suffolk County's safety-net
 6 provider. Stony Brook consists of two academic campuses, four hospitals,
 7 over two hundred clinical outpatient facilities, and the Long Island
 8 State Veterans Home. Stony Brook is poised to grow both its student
 9 enrollment and its workforce but is limited due to a lack of housing
 10 opportunities. In fact, the single greatest issue Stony Brook has across
 11 its system in recruiting and retaining students, fa