Senate Bill S10252

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the trustees of the state university of New York to lease and contract to make available certain land on the SUNY Stony Brook campus

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 08, 2026	referred to higher education

2025-S10252 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education

2025-S10252 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the trustees of the state university of New York to lease and contract to make available certain land on the SUNY Stony Brook campus.

2025-S10252 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S10252

SPONSOR: MARTINEZ
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to authorizing the trustees of the state university
of New York to lease and contract to make available certain land on the
state university of New York at Stony Brook's campus

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1- Legislative findings.

Section 2- Would authorize the SUNY Board of Trustees to lease a portion
of lands on the Stony Brook Southampton Campus to the Stony Brook South-
ampton Housing Development Corp.

Section 3- Provides that any contract or lease entered into shall be
deemed a state contract,

Section 4- Provides that all work performed under this act shall be
deemed public work subject to the provision of article 8 of the labor
law.

Section 5- Provides that SUNY shall not contract out to the ground
lessee any pedagogical functions or services, administrative services,
and similar professional services otherwise currently being performed by
state employees.

Section 6- Provides provisions relating to employees in the unclassified
service.

Sections 7, 8, and 9- Provides project and labor provisions, including
that such project shall be subject to a project labor agreement.

Sections 10, 11, and 12- Provides various provisions to effectuate the
contracting of the lease. Section 13- Provides the metes and bounds.

Section 14- Provides that SUNY shall not lease such lands unless a
ground lease shall be executed within 5 years of the effective date.

Section 15- Provides that where inconsistent, the terms of this act
shall be controlling.

Section 16- Sets forth an immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Stony Brook Southampton Campus is located in Shinnecock Hills in the
Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. The campus is home
to various programs including the University's School of Marine and
Atmospheric Sciences, School of Health Professions, School of Social
Work, and Southampton Arts. Additionally, Stony Brook Southampton Hospi-
tal is one of Stony Brook Medicine's four hospitals and it is located
several miles east, in Southampton Village.  Legislation passed in 2018
provided for the development of a new Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
on the Stony Brook Southampton Campus. To support a hospital moving
further west, in 2025, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and the South-

ampton Hospital Association opened a standalone emergency department in
East Hampton.

The East End of Long Island has a limited housing supply, particularly
for the healthcare workforce. Stony Brook University is seeking to build
workforce housing to help recruit and retain staff at the current and
future Southampton Hospital, East Hampton ED, and various clinical
facilities across the South Fork. Similar legislation was enacted in
2025 to support housing on Stony Brook's main campus for student and
workforce housing (Ch. 413, L. 2025).

This bill would allow SLTNY to enter into a lease with the Stony Brook
Southampton Housing Development Corp, a not for profit corporation
majority controlled by members of the community, to develop housing to
support the Stony Brook workforce. The proposed acreage is the same
location that over a dozen condemned buildings are being torn down with
the goal of revitalizing the campus with new housing. The surrounding
community has been engaged in the University's desire for housing for
nearly two years through the Stony Brook Southampton Advisory Committee,
a group composed of University leaders, government and elected offi-
cials, non profits, labor, and members of the community.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S10252 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10252
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the trustees of the  state  university
   of  New  York  to lease and contract to make available certain land on
   the state university of New York at Stony Brook's campus

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the state
 university of New York at Stony Brook ("the university")  seeks  to  use
 approximately  11.5  acres of underutilized land on Stony Brook's South-
 ampton campus to build multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs
 and supporting  amenities,  fulfilling  a  necessary  and  vital  public
 purpose.    The  legislature further finds that granting the trustees of
 the state university of New York ("trustees") the authority and power to
 lease and otherwise contract to make available grounds and facilities of
 Stony Brook's campus will ensure such land is utilized for  the  benefit
 of Stony Brook, the surrounding community, and the general public.
   §  2. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the state univer-
 sity trustees are authorized and empowered, without any public  bidding,
 to  lease and otherwise contract to make available to Stony Brook South-
 ampton Housing Development Corp., a not-for-profit  (ground  lessee),  a
 portion  of  the lands of the university generally described in this act
 for the purpose of developing, constructing, maintaining  and  operating
 multi-purpose  facilities  to support housing needs and supporting amen-
 ities. Such lease or contract shall be for a period not exceeding  nine-
 ty-nine years without any fee simple conveyance and otherwise upon terms
 and  conditions  determined by such trustees, subject to the approval of
 the director of the division of the budget, the attorney general and the
 state comptroller. In the event that  the  real  property  that  is  the
 subject of such lease or contract shall cease to be used for the purpose
 described  in  this act, such lease or contract shall immediately termi-
 nate and the real property and any improvements thereon shall revert  to
 the  state  university  of  New York. Any lease or contract entered into
 pursuant to this act shall provide that the real property  that  is  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD15730-01-6
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 subject  of  such  lease  or contract and any improvements thereon shall
 revert to the state university of New York on  the  expiration  of  such
 contract or lease.
   §  3. Any contract or lease entered into pursuant to this act shall be
 deemed to be a state contract for purposes of article 15-A of the execu-
 tive law, and any contractor, subcontractor, lessee or sublessee  enter-
 ing into such contract or lease for the construction, demolition, recon-
 struction, excavation, rehabilitation, repair, renovation, alteration or
 improvement  authorized  pursuant  to  this  act shall be deemed a state
 agency for the purposes of article 15-A of the executive law and subject
 to the provisions of such article.
   § 4. Notwithstanding any general, special or  local  law  or  judicial
 decision  to the contrary, all work performed on a project authorized by
 this act where all or any portion thereof involves a lease or  agreement
 for  construction,  demolition,  reconstruction,  excavation,  rehabili-
 tation, repair, renovation, alteration or improvement  shall  be  deemed
 public work and shall be subject to and performed in accordance with the
 provisions  of  article 8 of the labor law to the same extent and in the
 same manner as a contract of the state,  and  compliance  with  all  the
 provisions  of  article  8  of  the  labor  law shall be required of any
 lessee, sublessee, contractor or subcontractor on the project, including
 the enforcement of prevailing wage requirements by the fiscal officer as
 defined in paragraph e of subdivision 5 of section 220 of the labor  law
 to the same extent as a contract of the state.
   §  5. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
 state university of New York shall not contract out to the ground lessee
 or any subsidiary for the instruction or any  pedagogical  functions  or
 services,  or  any  administrative  services,  and  similar professional
 services currently being performed by state employees.  All  such  func-
 tions and services shall be performed by state employees pursuant to the
 civil  service law. Nothing in this act shall result in the displacement
 of any currently employed state worker or the loss of position  (includ-
 ing partial displacement such as reduction in the hours of non-overtime,
 wages  or  employment benefits), or result in the impairment of existing
 contracts for services  or  collective  bargaining  rights  pursuant  to
 existing  agreements  as  provided under article 14 of the civil service
 law. All positions currently at the state university of New York in  the
 unclassified  service  shall  remain  in  the  unclassified  service. No
 services or work  on  the  property  described  in  this  act  currently
 performed  by public employees at the time of the effective date of this
 act, or that is similar in scope and nature to the work being  currently
 performed  by public employees at the time of the effective date of this
 act, shall be contracted out or privatized by the  state  university  of
 New  York. The state university of New York acknowledges its obligations
 as an employer under the civil service law and agrees that it  will  not
 exercise  its  right  to  contract  out for goods and services under any
 applicable collective bargaining agreement.
   § 6. 1. The provisions of this section shall only apply  to  employees
 in the unclassified service at the state university of New York.
   2.  Notwithstanding  any  law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
 state university of New York or an affiliated or  associated  entity  of
 the  state  university  of New York shall not contract out to the ground
 lessee or any subsidiary of the ground lessee or the research foundation
 for the state university of New York for any services or  privatize  any
 services  currently  being  performed  by  employees in the unclassified
 service at the state university of New York at  Stony  brook.  All  such
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 functions  and services currently performed by employees in unclassified
 service shall be performed by employees in the unclassified service.
   3.  Nothing  in  this act relating to the lease of property to private
 entities for the development, construction, or operation  of  facilities
 shall  be  deemed to waive or impair any rights or benefits of employees
 of the state university of New York that otherwise would be available to
 them pursuant to the terms of agreements between the certified represen-
 tatives of such employees and the state of New  York  or  provisions  of
 article  14  of  the civil service law. The state university of New York
 and the state of New York acknowledge their obligations as  an  employer
 and  agree  that  they will not exercise their right to contract out for
 services under any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
   § 7. For the purposes of this act:
   (a) "project" shall mean work at the property authorized by  this  act
 to  be  leased  to the ground lessee as described in section thirteen of
 this act that involves the design, construction, reconstruction, demoli-
 tion, excavating,  rehabilitation,  repair,  renovation,  alteration  or
 improvement of such property.
   (b)  "project  labor  agreement"  shall  mean  a  pre-hire  collective
 bargaining agreement between a  contractor  and  a  labor  organization,
 establishing  the labor organization as the collective bargaining repre-
 sentative for all persons who will perform  work  on  the  project,  and
 which  provides that only contractors and subcontractors who sign a pre-
 negotiated agreement with the labor  organization  can  perform  project
 work.
   § 8. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to waive or impair any rights
 or benefits of employees of the state university of New York that other-
 wise  would  be  available  to  them pursuant to the terms of agreements
 between the certified representatives of such employees and the state of
 New York pursuant to article 14 of the civil service law, and  all  work
 performed on such property that ordinarily would be performed by employ-
 ees  subject to article 14 of the civil service law shall continue to be
 performed by such employees.
   § 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special, or  local
 law  or  judicial  decision  to  the  contrary,  the ground lessee shall
 require the use of a project labor agreement, as defined in  subdivision
 1  of  section 222 of the labor law, for all contractors and subcontrac-
 tors on the project, consistent with paragraph (a) of subdivision  2  of
 section 222 of the labor law.
   §  10.  Without limiting the determination of the terms and conditions
 of such contracts or leases, such terms and conditions may  provide  for
 leasing,   subleasing,   construction,  reconstruction,  rehabilitation,
 improvement, operation and management of and provision of  services  and
 assistance  and  the  granting of licenses, easements and other arrange-
 ments with regard to such grounds and facilities by the  ground  lessee,
 and  parties  contracting with the ground lessee, and in connection with
 such activities, the obtaining of funding or financing,  whether  public
 or private, unsecured or secured, including, but not limited to, secured
 by  leasehold  mortgages  and  assignments  of  rents and leases, by the
 ground lessee and parties contracting with the  ground  lessee  for  the
 purposes of completing the project described in this act.
   §  11.  Such  lease  shall  include an indemnity provision whereby the
 lessee or sublessee promises to indemnify, hold harmless and defend  the
 lessor  against all claims, suits, actions, and liability to all persons
 on the leased premises, including tenant, tenant's agents,  contractors,
 subcontractors,  employees,  customers,  guests, licensees, invitees and
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 members of the public, for damage to any such person's property, whether
 real or personal, or for personal injuries arising out of  tenant's  use
 or occupation of the demised premises.
   §  12.  Any  contracts  entered  into pursuant to this act between the
 ground lessee and parties contracting with the ground  lessee  shall  be
 awarded by a competitive process.
   §  13.  The property authorized by this act to be leased to the ground
 lessee is generally described as  that  parcel  of  real  property  with
 improvements  thereon  consisting of a total of approximately 11.5 acres
 of land situated on the Southampton campus of the  state  university  of
 New  York  at Stony Brook. The description in this section of the parcel
 to be made available pursuant to this act is not meant  to  be  a  legal
 description, but is intended only to identify the parcel:
   Beginning  at  a point on the southerly sideline of section 211, block
 6, lot 9, now or formerly belonging to  the  MTA-LIRR,  the  said  point
 being  distant  1135.50 feet on a bearing of south 86 degrees 01 minutes
 07 seconds west from the intersection of the said lirr sideline with the
 westerly sideline of tuckahoe road (50 feet wide), and running from  the
 said  point  of  beginning; thence running through section 211, block 1,
 lot 1 the following nine (9) courses:
 (1) South 00 degrees 15 minutes 03 seconds east for a distance of 456.85
 feet; thence
 (2) South 85 degrees 52 minutes 00 seconds west,  a  distance  of  97.30
 feet to a point of curvature; thence
 (3)  On  a  curve  to the left having a radius of 100.00 feet, a central
 angle of 19 degrees 15 minutes 58 seconds and an  arc  length  of  33.63
 feet to a point of reverse curvature; thence
 (4)  On  a  curve to the right having a radius of 100.00 feet, a central
 angle of 17 degrees 48 minutes 58 seconds and an  arc  length  of  31.09
 feet to a point of tangency; thence
 (5)  South  84  degrees 25 minutes 00 seconds west, a distance of 105.00
 feet to a point of curvature; thence
 (6) On a curve to the left having a radius  of  65.00  feet,  a  central
 angle  of  73  degrees  17 minutes 00 seconds and an arc length of 83.14
 feet to a point of tangency; thence
 (7) South 11 degrees 08 minutes 00 seconds west,  a  distance  of  54.50
 feet; thence
 (8)  South  31  degrees  46 minutes 02 seconds west, being radial to the
 following course, a distance of 48.50 feet; thence
 (9) On a curve to the left having a radius of  125.00  feet,  a  central
 angle  of  39  degrees 49 minutes 32 seconds, and an arc length of 86.89
 feet to a point of tangency; thence
 (10) Continuing through said lot lot 1,  passing  through  section  210,
 block  2,  lot  26  and then crossing into section 210, block 2, lot 25,
 south 81 degrees 56 minutes 30 seconds west, a distance of  326.00  feet
 to a point of curvature; thence
 (11)  Continuing  through  said  lot 25, on a curve to the left having a
 radius of 100.00 feet, a central angle  of  43  degrees  59  minutes  00
 seconds, and an arc length of 76.77 feet to a point of tangency; thence
 (12)  Continuing  through  said  lot 25 and crossing back into aforemen-
 tioned lot 26, south 37 degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds west,  a  distance
 of 250.00 feet; thence
 (13)  Continuing  through  said  lot  26, south 59 degrees 26 minutes 00
 seconds west, a distance of 32.50 feet; thence
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 (14) Continuing through said lot 26 and  crossing  back  into  aforemen-
 tioned  lot  25, north 30 degrees 34 minutes 00 seconds west, a distance
 of 126.00 feet to a point of curvature; thence
 (15)  Continuing  through  said  lot 25, on a curve to the left having a
 radius of 65.00 feet, a central  angle  of  48  degrees  54  minutes  30
 seconds, and an arc length of 55.48 feet to a point of tangency; thence
 (16) Continuing through the same, north 79 degrees 28 minutes 30 seconds
 west, a distance of 92.22 feet; thence
 (17)  Along  the  dividing  line of said lot 25 to the east with section
 210, block 2, lot 11.3 to the west,  north  17  degrees  43  minutes  47
 seconds east, a distance of 160.35 feet; thence
 (18)  Along  the  dividing  line  of  said  lot 25 to the southeast with
 section 210, block 2, lots 11.3, 11.4 and 11.5 to the  northwest,  north
 55 degrees 50 minutes 47 seconds east, a distance of 438.30 feet; thence
 (19)  Along  the  dividing line of aforementioned lot 1 to the southeast
 with said lot 11.5 to the northwest, north  55  degrees  51  minutes  07
 seconds east, a distance of 315.93 feet; thence
 (20) Along same, north 24 degrees 08 minutes 33 seconds west, a distance
 of 155.67 feet; thence
 (21)  Along  the dividing line of said lot 1 to the south with aforemen-
 tioned lot 9 to the north, north 86 degrees 01 minutes 07 seconds  east,
 a distance of 593.70 feet to the point and place of beginning.
 The  above-described  lease area contains 500,818 square feet or 11.4972
 acres of land. Subject to all existing  easements  and  restrictions  of
 record.
   § 14. The state university of New York shall not lease lands described
 in  this  act  unless any such lease shall be executed within 5 years of
 the effective date of this act.
   § 15. Insofar as the provisions of this act are inconsistent with  the
 provisions of any law, general, special or local, the provisions of this
 act shall be controlling.
   § 16. This act shall take effect immediately.

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