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Senate Bill S1755

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten and in the second judicial district to fifty-two

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2019-S1755 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §140-a, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S615
2011-2012: S4225
2013-2014: S2478
2015-2016: S4657
2017-2018: S6201
2021-2022: S4567
2023-2024: S5998
2025-2026: S7213

2019-S1755 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten and in the second judicial district to fifty-two.

2019-S1755 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1755 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1755
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the number of justices
   of the supreme court in the second and thirteenth judicial districts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  2  and 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary
 law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 690 of the  laws  of  2007  and
 subdivision  13  as amended by section 7 of part XX of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2018, are amended to read as follows:
   2. Second district, [forty-nine] FIFTY-TWO;
   13. Thirteenth district, [four] TEN.
   § 2. Justice Thomas P. Aliotta, and his successor  in  office  on  the
 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
 he  or she was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court in
 and for the thirteenth judicial district.
   § 3. Two of the additional justices of the supreme court in the  thir-
 teenth  judicial  district  and  two  additional justices of the supreme
 court in the second judicial district provided for  by  section  one  of
 this  act  shall  first be elected at the general election to be held in
 November 2020 and shall first take office  January  1,  2021.    Another
 three  of the additional justices of the supreme court in the thirteenth
 judicial district and the other justice of  the  supreme  court  in  the
 second  judicial  district provided for by section one of this act shall
 first be elected at the general election to be held in November 2020 and
 shall first take  office  January  1,  2022.  The  remaining  additional
 justice  of  the  supreme  court  in  the  thirteenth  judicial district
 provided for by section one of this act shall first be  elected  at  the
 general election to be held in November 2022 and shall first take office
 January 1, 2023.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

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