Local resolutions from the Town Board and Wilton Water & Sewer Authority backed the proposal earlier this year. The Assembly passed it June 1, and the measure now sits in the Senate.
A state bill that would let the Wilton Water & Sewer Authority place certain overdue charges onto annual property tax bills has already won support from local officials and passed the New York State Assembly on June 1.
The proposal appears in Assembly bill A9293, which the state legislation page now shows as passed by the Assembly on June 1, 2026 and delivered to the Senate. The same page says the measure would authorize the Town of Wilton Water & Sewer Authority to collect unpaid water bills through tax collections.
Local records show the idea was under discussion in Wilton months earlier. WWSA’s January 20 board minutes said Assemblymember Carrie Woerner had introduced the bill and that officials were seeking a Senate companion. Wilton’s Town Board then adopted Resolution 133 on April 2. In that resolution, the board said WWSA writes off “thousands of dollars” in uncollected charges each year and that overdue amounts usually remain as property liens until a sale triggers payment.
WWSA’s own May 26 draft minutes show the authority board later approved a support resolution of its own. Those minutes say the bill, if enacted, would go into effect on January 1, 2027.
What the bill would do
The bill text would add a new section, §1125-a, to the Public Authorities Law. It says unpaid rates, fees, and other charges billed directly by the authority would become a lien on the affected property from the first date payment is due. It would also require the authority’s chief financial officer to send the tax receiver, by November 1 each year, a list of properties with arrears that are at least 90 days old. Those amounts could then be levied on the annual tax roll under a separate “water charge” column.
The state bill page summarizes the measure as applying to unpaid water bills. Wilton’s April 2 Town Board resolution used broader “water and sewer” wording. That wording matters because WWSA’s own website says the authority transferred ownership and operation of the town sewer system to Saratoga County Sewer District No. 1 effective April 1, 2025, while continuing water service.
What comes next
As of July 13, the Assembly bill page showed A9293 in the Senate Rules Committee. A companion Senate bill, S10311, is listed separately in the Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee. If the bill advances, Wilton residents will likely want to watch for how the authority and the town explain any new notice, billing, and tax-roll procedures before the stated January 1, 2027 effective date.