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A7890 • 2025

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines

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This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Christopher Friend
Last action
2026-06-04
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.

What This Bill Does

  • Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  2. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    REPORTED

  3. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.489

  4. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.489

  5. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S7158A

  6. 2026-06-03 Assembly

    REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  7. 2026-05-20 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

  8. 2026-05-20 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 7890A

  9. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

  10. 2025-04-11 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Official Summary Text

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines
Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7890

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 11, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT to amend chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to authorizing
          the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease a  portion  of
          state  land  to public television station WSKG, in relation to leasing
          such land, tower and associated utility  lines  to  the  Tioga  county
          emergency  services,  the  Newark  Valley central school district, the
          Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to
     2  authorizing the commissioner of environmental conservation  to  lease  a
     3  portion  of  state land to public television station WSKG, as amended by
     4  chapter 270 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     5    Section 1. The commissioner of environmental  conservation  is  hereby
     6  authorized  to  lease  to the Tioga county [bureau of fire, the Northern
     7  Tioga] emergency [medical] services, the Newark  Valley  central  school
     8  district,  the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire high-
     9  way department for such consideration as [he or she] SUCH  PERSON  deems
    10  just  compensation  to the state, that portion of Tioga state forest #7,
    11  town of Newark Valley, upon which is installed a  television  translator
    12  station.  Lease  of such land, and television translator system shall be
    13  made upon such terms and conditions as  the  commissioner  may  fix  and
    14  determine,  provided  that  such lease shall be for a term not to exceed
    15  [ten] TWENTY years.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11508-02-5