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                                   7518
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JOYNER, DINOWITZ -- (at request of the Office of
   Court Administration) -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
   Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the family court act and the domestic relations law, in
   relation to the date of adjustment and amount of the  spousal  mainte-
   nance cap

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 412 of the family
 court act, as added by chapter 269 of the laws of 2015,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (d)  "income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-
 five]  EIGHTY-FOUR  thousand  dollars  of  the  payor's  annual  income;
 provided,  however,  beginning  [January  thirty-first] MARCH FIRST, two
 thousand [sixteen] TWENTY and every two years thereafter, the income cap
 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang-
 es in the consumer price  index  for  all  urban  consumers  (CPI-U)  as
 published  by  the  United  States  department  of labor bureau of labor
 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and
 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The  office  of  court
 administration shall determine and publish the income cap.
   §    2.  Subparagraph 5 of paragraph b of subdivision 5-a of part B of
 section 236 of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 269  of
 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (5)  "Income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-
 five]  EIGHTY-FOUR  thousand  dollars  of  the  payor's  annual  income;
 provided,  however,  beginning  [January  thirty-first] MARCH FIRST, two
 thousand [sixteen] TWENTY and every two years thereafter, the income cap
 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang-
 es in the consumer price  index  for  all  urban  consumers  (CPI-U)  as
 published  by  the  United  States  department  of labor bureau of labor
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and
 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The  office  of  court
 administration shall determine and publish the income cap.
   §  3.  Subparagraph  4  of  paragraph  b of subdivision 6 of part B of
 section 236 of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 269  of
 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (4)  "Income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-
 five]  EIGHTY-FOUR  thousand  dollars  of  the  payor's  annual  income;
 provided,  however,  beginning  [January  thirty-first] MARCH FIRST, two
 thousand [sixteen] TWENTY and every two years thereafter, the income cap
 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang-
 es in the consumer price  index  for  all  urban  consumers  (CPI-U)  as
 published  by  the  United  States  department  of labor bureau of labor
 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and
 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The  office  of  court
 administration shall determine and publish the income cap.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.