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New YorkS 76162025-2026 Regular SessionSenate

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

Sponsored By: Monica Martinez (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

HIGHER EDUCATIONWAYS AND MEANS

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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Campus construction workers get wage protections

Covered construction, demolition, excavation, rebuilding, repair, renovation, and improvement work on this project counts as public work. Workers receive New York’s public-work protections, including prevailing wages enforced by the responsible fiscal officer. The housing developer must require a project labor agreement for every contractor and subcontractor, consistent with state labor law. This is a labor agreement made before hiring; it binds contractors that sign it. The law does not set specific wage rates or the agreement’s pay and benefit terms.

Stony Brook employees keep job protections

SUNY and its related entities cannot outsource covered teaching, administrative, or similar work on the property now done by public employees. The ban also covers future work similar in scope and nature. The law bars displacement, loss of positions, reductions in protected employment terms, and reclassification of SUNY positions because of this project. Work ordinarily done by employees covered by Civil Service Law Article 14 must remain with those employees. Existing employee-agreement rights stay protected.

Stony Brook can add campus housing

SUNY can lease about 16.7217 acres, or 728,396 square feet, to Stony Brook Housing Development Corp. without public bidding. The site is for undergraduate and graduate student, faculty, and certain staff housing. The law took effect immediately; the lease must be signed within five years and last no more than 100 years. Leases and related contracts require approval from the state budget director, attorney general, and comptroller. SUNY keeps ownership; land and buildings return to its control when the lease ends or the housing use stops. Project agreements can allow subleasing, public or private financing, mortgages on lease rights, and pledges of rents and leases. The law sets no rents, affordability requirements, or number of homes.

Campus housing contractors face state rules

The housing developer must award its project contracts through a competitive process. Contracts and leases under this law count as state contracts under New York’s Article 15-A contracting rules. Contractors, subcontractors, lessees, and sublessees doing covered building, demolition, excavation, repair, or improvement work must follow those rules. For those rules, they are treated as state agencies. The lease must also require the lessee or sublessee to defend SUNY and cover injury or property-damage claims tied to use or occupation of the site.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Monica Martinez

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Anthony H. Palumbo

    Republican • Senate

  • Dean Murray

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 208 • No: 0

House vote • 6/6/2025

Assembly floor vote

Yes: 137 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/5/2025

FLOOR Vote

Yes: 60 • No: 0

committee vote • 5/20/2025

Higher Education Committee Vote

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. SIGNED CHAP.413

    9/17/2025Senate

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

    9/17/2025Senate

  3. RETURNED TO SENATE

    6/6/2025House

  4. PASSED ASSEMBLY

    6/6/2025House

  5. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.461

    6/6/2025House

  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR A8070

    6/6/2025House

  7. REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

    6/5/2025House

  8. DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

    6/5/2025Senate

  9. PASSED SENATE

    6/5/2025Senate

  10. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

    5/22/2025Senate

  11. 2ND REPORT CAL.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. 1ST REPORT CAL.1181

    5/20/2025Senate

  13. PRINT NUMBER 7616A

    4/28/2025Senate

  14. AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

    4/28/2025Senate

  15. REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

    4/23/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Amendment A

    4/28/2025

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  • Original

    4/23/2025

    PDF

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