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New YorkA 76342025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Relates to hotel and motel taxes in Saratoga county and the city of Saratoga Springs

Sponsored By: John T. McDonald III (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

WAYS AND MEANSRULESINVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

Saratoga Springs gains a lower-tax option

Saratoga Springs can set its previously fixed 1% lodging tax below 1%, but cannot exceed that cap. This change applies to that tax, not the city's separate lodging taxes. The city must impose the tax through a local law. The law does not automatically lower what guests pay.

Higher Saratoga lodging taxes and broader coverage

Saratoga County can raise its lodging tax from 1% to as much as 3% of the daily room rate. County and Saratoga Springs taxes now cover overnight lodging with rentable units, including bed-and-breakfast and tourist facilities. Facilities with fewer than four units are no longer excluded. People occupying a room or rooms for at least 90 consecutive days remain exempt. Each government must impose its tax through a local law; the county's 3% cap does not automatically raise guest bills.

Saratoga County gains tourism spending flexibility

Saratoga County's board now chooses how to allocate net county lodging-tax collections for tourism and other economic development. The law ends the required 50% share for tourism and conventions and 50% for the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership. The county also no longer must spend $50,000 yearly from other funds on industrial and tourist promotion. That spending was previously required to keep county lodging-tax laws in force. The law sets no new funding amount.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • John T. McDonald III

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Carrie Woerner

    Democratic • House

  • Mary Beth Walsh

    Republican • House

  • Matthew Simpson

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 148 • No: 56

Senate vote • 6/12/2025

FLOOR Vote

Yes: 47 • No: 12

House vote • 5/29/2025

Assembly floor vote

Yes: 101 • No: 44

Actions Timeline

  1. SIGNED CHAP.454

    10/16/2025House

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

    10/9/2025House

  3. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

    6/12/2025Senate

  4. PASSED SENATE

    6/12/2025Senate

  5. 3RD READING CAL.1640

    6/12/2025Senate

  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR S6998

    6/12/2025Senate

  7. REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    5/29/2025Senate

  8. DELIVERED TO SENATE

    5/29/2025House

  9. PASSED ASSEMBLY

    5/29/2025House

  10. HOME RULE REQUEST

    5/29/2025House

  11. HOME RULE REQUEST

    5/29/2025House

  12. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.342

    5/29/2025House

  13. RULES REPORT CAL.342

    5/29/2025House

  14. REPORTED

    5/29/2025House

  15. REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

    5/27/2025House

  16. REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

    4/2/2025House

Bill Text

  • Original

    4/2/2025

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