New York A 3628: Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County

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A03628 Summary:

BILL NOA03628 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08047

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SPONSORJones

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Add Art 9 Title 23 §§9-2301 - 9-2304, En Con L

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Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County.

Go to top A03628 Actions:

BILL NOA03628 

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01/29/2025referred to environmental conservation

06/10/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/11/2025reported referred to rules

06/12/2025reported 

06/12/2025rules report cal.648

06/12/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.648

06/13/2025substituted by s8047

&nbspS08047 AMEND= STEC

&nbsp05/15/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

&nbsp05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1384

&nbsp05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp06/10/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/10/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/10/2025referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/13/2025substituted for a3628

&nbsp06/13/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.648

&nbsp06/13/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/13/2025returned to senate

&nbsp10/24/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp10/27/2025SIGNED CHAP.488

Go to topA03628 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/11/2025AYE/NAY:34/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

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Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/12/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

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Go to topA03628 Floor&nbspVotes:

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Go to topA03628 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3628

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 29, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
 Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex

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

 1 Section 1. Article 9 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 2 by adding a new title 23 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE 23
 4 THE MOUNT VAN HOEVENBERG OLYMPIC SPORTS COMPLEX
 5 Section 9-2301. Legislative purpose and intent.
 6 9-2302. Definitions.
 7 9-2303. Construction, operation, and maintenance of the Mount
 8 Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex.
 9 9-2304. Land to be acquired for inclusion in the forest preserve
 10 in the Adirondack park.
 11 § 9-2301. Legislative purpose and intent.
 12 1. It is the intent of the legislature to hereby implement the amend-
 13 ment to section one of article fourteen, of the New York state constitu-
 14 tion pertaining to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex
 15 located on forest preserve lands in the town of North Elba in Essex
 16 County.
 17 2. The legislature further intends that implementation of the consti-
 18 tutional amendment should be accomplished in a manner that ensures the
 19 integrity of the forest preserve land on which the sports complex is
 20 situated and results in a significant increase of forest preserve acre-
 21 age in the Adirondack park.
 22 3. The legislature intends that, as offset for the use of forest
 23 preserve lands for the sports complex, the state shall acquire as an
 24 addition to the forest preserve at least two thousand five hundred acres
 25 of true forest land located in the Adirondack park. To ensure that such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05554-01-5

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