NY State Senate Bill 2025-S8005

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

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May 15, 2025	referred to housing, construction and community development

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Add §382-c, Exec L

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain large buildings in the city of New York to be retrofitted with sprinkler systems that are compliant with the NY state uniform fire prevention and building code.

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8005

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring sprinkler
systems to be installed in certain existing buildings

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one titles the bill the "fire safety retrofit act"

Section two amends the executive law by adding section 382-C:

*Provides the definition of a large building and sprinkler system

*Large buildings located in a city of one million or more that do not
currently have a sprinkler system or meets/exceeds the NYS Uniform Fire
Prevention and Building Code must be retrofitted with a sprinkler system

*There must be a compliance plan detailing the scope and timeline.
Buildings will have 5 years to adhere to the bills provisions and exten-
sions may be granted for up to 2 years if hardship is demonstrated

*provides civil penalties

Section three provides the effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York State and many localities have long-sought to address fire
safety to mitigate death and damage; however, too little progress has
been made to require sprinkler retrofits in many of the buildings that
most need them. Following the Twin Parks fire of 2022, the New York City
Council passed a package of bills aimed at clearly defining the means of
egress in buildings, limiting the types of use of electric space heaters
in buildings and mandating more fire-safety education for tenants and
owners. Each were important pieces of legislation, but individually, and
as a whole, they were woefully inadequate responses to the scale of the
problem that led to the deaths in that fire. In contrast, after the
terrorist attacks of September 11, the City Council passed Local Law 26
of 2004, which did impose a mandate for building retrofits requiring
sprinklers in large office buildings taller than 100 feet within
15.years of the bill's passage. This law has been an effective means to
sprinkler millions of square footage in New York City where thousands of
people work each day.  However, the need remains in far too many resi-
dential buildings and schools. New York State commonly leads the nation
in fire deaths, and the sad fact is that the majority of these would
have been prevented if fire-sprinklers were present. It is time for New
York to begin mandating the installation of sprinklers in its,oldo
building stock in order to protect the residents and occupants of these
buildings.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 180 days after it shall have become a law.

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8005
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to requiring sprinkler
   systems to be installed in certain existing buildings

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "fire safety retrofit act of 2025".
   § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  382-c  to
 read as follows:
   §  382-C. MANDATORY SPRINKLER RETROFITTING FOR CERTAIN EXISTING BUILD-
 INGS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL
 HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   A. "LARGE BUILDING" MEANS ANY STRUCTURE, INCLUDING STRUCTURES THAT ARE
 USED  BY  SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION
 OR MORE WHICH MEETS ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
   (I) IS GREATER THAN SEVENTY-FIVE FEET IN HEIGHT FROM THE LOWEST  POINT
 OF FIRE DEPARTMENT ACCESS TO THE HIGHEST OCCUPIED FLOOR;
   (II)  CONTAINS  A  FLOOR  AREA  EXCEEDING  FIVE  THOUSAND SQUARE FEET,
 REGARDLESS OF HEIGHT, AND HAS AN EXISTING STANDPIPE SYSTEM.
   B. "SPRINKLER SYSTEM" MEANS A SYSTEM OF PIPING AND APPLIANCES DESIGNED
 AND INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED  STANDARDS  SO  THAT
 HEAT  FROM  A  FIRE WILL AUTOMATICALLY CAUSE WATER TO BE DISCHARGED OVER
 THE FIRE AREA TO EXTINGUISH IT OR PREVENT ITS FURTHER SPREAD.
   2. A. ALL EXISTING LARGE BUILDINGS IN A CITY HAVING  A  POPULATION  OF
 ONE  MILLION  OR MORE WHICH DO NOT HAVE A SPRINKLER SYSTEM THAT MEETS OR
 EXCEEDS THE STANDARDS ESTABLISHED IN THE NEW  YORK  STATE  UNIFORM  FIRE
 PREVENTION  AND  BUILDING  CODE  SHALL  BE  RETROFITTED WITH A SPRINKLER
 SYSTEM WHICH IS COMPLIANT WITH THE STANDARDS ESTABLISHED IN  SUCH  CODE,
 OR ANY RULE OR REGULATION ESTABLISHED THERETO.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13113-01-5

 S. 8005                             2
 
   B. A COMPLIANCE PLAN DETAILING THE SCOPE AND TIMELINE OF ANY SPRINKLER
 SYSTEM REQUIRED TO BE INSTALLED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION  SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE LOCAL CODE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WITHIN TWO
 YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION  AND  FULL  INSTALLATION  OF
 SUCH  SPRINKLER  SYSTEMS  SHALL  BE  COMPLETED  WITHIN FIVE YEARS OF THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION. EXTENSIONS MAY BE GRANTED FOR UP TO  TWO
 ADDITIONAL  YEARS  UPON  DEMONSTRATION OF HARDSHIP, AS DETERMINED BY THE
 CODE ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY.
   3. ANY OWNER WHO FAILS TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION
 SHALL  BE  SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
 PER DAY OF NONCOMPLIANCE AFTER THE FINAL COMPLIANCE DEADLINE ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
   4. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO LANDMARKS OR HISTORICAL BUILDINGS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S8005

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Jessica Ramos

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8005 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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