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NY S 8918

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Establishes the build up New York pilot program and the mass timber for affordable housing program to encourage the use of mass timber in affordable housing retrofits and additions

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Establishes the build up New York pilot program to provide grants to eligible municipalities that construct new accessory dwelling unit housing projects built on top of existing buildings that utilize mass timber and serve certain households; establishes the mass timber for affordable housing program to provide tax credits for eligible taxpayers who use mass timber in certain new construction or major retrofits of existing buildings that primarily serve households up to one hundred fifty percent of the area median income; establishes tax credits for mass timber production.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-05-18 — REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Brian Kavanaghprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-15

    REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-04-16

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    amendment-passage,referral-committee

  3. 2026-04-16

    PRINT NUMBER 8918A

    amendment-passage

  4. 2026-05-18

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Housing, Construction And Community Development Vote - Version: A

    2026-05-18 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Jabari Brisport: yes
    • Cordell Cleare: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • Brian Kavanagh: yes
    • Jack M. Martins: yes
    • Rachel May: yes
    • Gustavo Rivera: yes
    • Julia Salazar: yes
    • Mark Walczyk: yes
    • Jeremy Zellner: yes
    • Pamela Helming: yes

Related bills

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S8918?summary=&detail=

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