Senate Bill S1723

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Adds Doodletown Brook to the definition of inland waterways eligible for the local waterfront revitalization program

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S1723 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A266
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §911, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9888
2023-2024: S5620, A5206

2025-S1723 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds Doodletown Brook to the definition of inland waterways eligible for the local waterfront revitalization program.

2025-S1723 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1723 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1723
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  including  Doodletown
   Brook  in  the  list of inland waterways eligible for the local water-
   front revitalization program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 911 of the execu-
 tive  law,  as separately amended by chapters 382 and 397 of the laws of
 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) the state's major creeks AND BROOKS comprised of the 18 Mile Creek
 located in Erie county, Chittenango  Creek,  Bash  Bish  and  Kinderhook
 Creek located in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rensselaer
 county,  Basher Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, North Chuctanun-
 da, Cincinnati, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower  branches),
 Ferguson,  Fish  (including  east  and west branches), Gooseberry, Great
 Valley, Kennyetto, Little Sandy, Moyer,  Mud  Creek  located  in  Oneida
 county,  Ninemile  Creek,  Onondaga,  Oriskany, Peekskill Hollow, Reall,
 Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout,  Sandy,  Sauquoit,  Schoharie,  Shawangunk
 Kill,  Six  Mile Creek, South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West Kill, Scaja-
 quada, Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Willsey in the  village  of  Wurts-
 boro, Wood Creek located in Herkimer county, Wood Creek located in Onei-
 da  county, Black Creek located in Monroe county, Black Creek located in
 Genesee and Wyoming counties, Ellicott Creek  located  in  Erie  county,
 Wynantskill,  Claverack,  Taghkanic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek
 and Butternut Creek located in Onondaga county,  Nanticoke  and  Sawkill
 (in  Ulster  county), Saw Kill and Fall Kill located in Dutchess county,
 Otter Kill Creek located in Orange county, Black Meadow Creek located in
 Orange county, [and] the Silver Lake Outlet located in  Wyoming  county,
 AND THE DOODLETOWN BROOK LOCATED IN ROCKLAND COUNTY;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01375-01-5

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