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NY S03545

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/28/2025

Primary Sponsor

George Borrello

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Exempts housing development projects of 20 or more units from State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) requirements by classifying them as actions not subject to environmental review

  • Makes all time periods for environmental reviews mandatory with no extensions allowed unless the applicant or project sponsor agrees to an extension

  • Preserves municipal authority to conduct their own environmental reviews of housing development projects using Department of Environmental Conservation rules and to deny permits based on those reviews

  • Corrects a typographical error in existing law, changing "exsiting" to "existing"

Legislative Description

Relates to environmental quality reviews of housing development projects that propose to build twenty or more units; provides that municipalities shall not be prohibited from performing their own environmental reviews.

Last Action

REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Environmental Conservation1/28/2025

Full Bill Text

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