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Assembly Bill A9754

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York, and the counties of Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Oneida, Oswego, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester

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2013-A9754 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง121 & 131, Fam Ct Act

2013-A9754 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York, and the counties of Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Onieda, Oswego, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester.

2013-A9754 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9754

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEINSTEIN  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg-
  es of the family court

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
209 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
  S 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New  York
shall  consist  of  [forty-four  judges  and, as of July first, nineteen
hundred ninety, shall consist of forty-five  judges  and,  as  of  April
first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one,  shall  consist  of  forty-seven]
FIFTY-SIX judges, EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN.  [At
least  one of the persons appointed to the office of judge of the family
court created by this section, shall be a  resident  of  the  county  of
Richmond  and  hereafter there] THERE shall be at least one family court
judge resident in each county of the city of New York.  [The  amount  of
compensation  for  such  new  family  court judges shall be equal to the
compensation payable to existing family court judges in the city of  New
York.]
  S  2.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
subdivision (u) to read as follows:
  (U) THERE SHALL BE AN ADDITIONAL FAMILY COURT JUDGE FOR  EACH  OF  THE
FOLLOWING  COUNTIES:   ALBANY, BROOME, CHAUTAUQUA, ERIE, MONROE, NASSAU,
ONEIDA, OSWEGO, SCHENECTADY, SUFFOLK AND WESTCHESTER.  THE  COMPENSATION
OF  EACH  SUCH  ADDITIONAL  FAMILY  COURT JUDGE SHALL BE THE SAME AS THE
COMPENSATION PAID TO EACH EXISTING FAMILY COURT JUDGE IN THE COUNTY  FOR
WHICH IT IS ESTABLISHED.
  S  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the additional family court judges provided for by section two  of  this
act  shall first be elected at the general election to be held in Novem-
ber 2014 and shall first take office January 1, 2015.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15309-01-4

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