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S7158 • 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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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Thomas F. O'Mara
Last action
2026-06-04
Official status
Passed Assembly
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

    SUBSTITUTED FOR A7890A

  2. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.489

  3. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  4. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  5. 2026-06-01 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  6. 2026-06-01 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1468

  7. 2026-06-01 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  8. 2026-06-01 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  9. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

  10. 2026-05-20 Senate

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  11. 2026-05-20 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 7158A

  12. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  13. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  14. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  15. 2025-06-10 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  16. 2025-06-10 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1766

  17. 2025-06-10 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  18. 2025-06-10 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  19. 2025-06-10 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

  20. 2025-04-03 Senate

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7158

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      April 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        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