All Roll Calls
Yes: 217 • No: 1
New YorkS 88342025-2026 Regular SessionSenate
Relates to the entering of lands owned or occupied by any nation, tribe, or band of Indians by a person and to law enforcement agreements with the Seneca nation
Sponsored By: April Baskin (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
RULESJUDICIARY
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Bill Overview
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Tribal entry limits protect through travel
The law bars unauthorized entry, staying, settling, living, or running a business on lands owned or occupied by tribes. It also bars unauthorized junkyards, vehicle graveyards, and dumps. Tribal citizens or members, their authorized guests, and authorized lessees are exempt. You are not treated as entering these lands when temporarily and continuously passing through on a highway, road, trail, or other thoroughfare. This travel exception does not exempt you from other laws.
New rules for Seneca police agreements
At the Seneca Nation’s request, the State Police superintendent, sheriffs of counties containing Seneca lands, or Salamanca’s police chief can make agreements. These agreements cover policing on the Nation’s federally recognized Indian Country lands; the Governor is no longer an authorized party. Agreements can cover appointing tribal members or Nation employees as police officers under specified criminal procedure rules, extradition, and agreed related matters. They cannot change other laws or limit agencies’ existing legal powers and duties. The law removes the requirement that state courts give these agreements full effect in covered criminal cases. The act takes effect with the related 2025 Indian Law amendments identified as S. 8127 and A. 8289.
Tribes control removal of intruders’ property
For people found to be intruders, judges can order specified property confiscated or removed, in addition to other penalties. This covers businesses, drug-trafficking materials or equipment, junkyards, vehicle graveyards, and dumps. The affected tribe must consent, and judges must allow a reasonable time for removal. A tribe’s decision that someone is an intruder settles that question, except as provided in subdivision one, paragraph b.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
April Baskin
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
George Borrello
Republican • Senate
Patrick M. Gallivan
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/11/2026
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 141 • No: 0
Senate vote • 1/20/2026
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 56 • No: 1
committee vote • 1/12/2026
Rules Committee Vote
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
SIGNED CHAP.88
2/13/2026SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2/13/2026SenateRETURNED TO SENATE
2/11/2026HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
2/11/2026HouseORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.79
2/11/2026HouseSUBSTITUTED FOR A9500
2/11/2026HouseREFERRED TO JUDICIARY
1/20/2026HouseDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
1/20/2026SenatePASSED SENATE
1/20/2026SenateORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.48
1/12/2026SenateREFERRED TO RULES
1/8/2026Senate
Bill Text
Original
1/8/2026
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