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Assembly Bill A497

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases the number of supreme court justices in the third judicial district (Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan & Ulster Counties)

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2019-A497 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §140-a, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8599
2017-2018: A7758

2019-A497 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of supreme court justices from 15 to 17 in the third judicial district (Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan & Ulster counties).

2019-A497 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    497
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to increasing the  number
   of  supreme  court  justices  in  the third judicial district (Albany,
   Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties)
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 140-a of the judiciary law, as
 amended by chapter 711 of the laws  of  1978,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3. Third district, [fifteen] SEVENTEEN;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
 additional justices of the supreme court, provided for by section one of
 this  act,  shall first be elected at the general election to be held in
 November 2019 and shall first take office January 1, 2020.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03569-01-9

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