S8918 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- 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
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-18
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2026-01-15
- Active version
- S8918A
- Same as
- A9255
- Law section
- Public Housing Law
Sponsors
- Brian Kavanagh State Senator, District 27
Heard in committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Housing, Construction And Community Development NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A9255 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Housing, Construction And Community Development, 2026-05-18 Referred to committee; referred to Finance