Senate Bill S5515

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the date of adjustment and amount of the spousal maintenance cap

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7518
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §412, Fam Ct Act; amd §236, Dom Rel L

2019-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the date of adjustment and amount of the spousal maintenance cap; increases the income cap to $84,000 of the payor's annual income.

2019-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5515
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  --  (at request of the Office of Court
   Administration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
   be committed 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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