NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8302

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 15, 2020	signed chap.330
Dec 03, 2020	delivered to governor
Jul 22, 2020	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.855 substituted for s8302
Jul 22, 2020	substituted by a10514
Jul 21, 2020	ordered to third reading cal.855
Jul 20, 2020	reported and committed to rules reported and committed to rules
May 08, 2020	referred to judiciary

Votes

- Jul 22, 2020 - Floor Vote
  A10514
  
  60
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jul 22, 2020
      
      aye (60)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
  Jul 21, 2020 - Rules Committee Vote
  S8302
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jul 21, 2020
      
      aye (19)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
  Jul 20, 2020 - Judiciary Committee Vote
  S8302
  
  14
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Judiciary Committee Vote: Jul 20, 2020
      
      aye (14)
      
      Bailey
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Gounardes
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaplan
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Savino
      
      Stavisky
      
      Thomas
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Sepúlveda

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10514
Law Section:: Uniform City Court Act
Laws Affected:: Amd §2104, UCCA; amd §221-i, Judy L

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to Watertown city court judges; replaces one full-time judgeship with a part-time judgeship.

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8302

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the uniform city court act and the judiciary law, in
relation to Watertown city court judges

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill, introduced at the request of the city of Watertown to reduce
the number of Watertown city court judges from two full time to one
full-time and one part-time judge.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Sections 1 and 2. Section 2104 of the uniform city court act is amended
to denote that the city of Watertown shall have one full-time and one
part-time city court judge.

Section 3. Section 221-I of the judiciary law is amended to adjust the

salary for the part-time city court judge.

Sections 4 and 5 set forth the transition from two full time to one full
and one part time city court judge and their commensurate salary, as
well as any increases in compensation provided by law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In 2014 the uniform city court act and the judiciary law were amended to
increase the number of city court judges throughout the state, including
an increase from one full-time and one part-time judge in the city of
Watertown to two full-time positions.

The city of Watertown was not consulted at the time of the 2014 changes
to the law and continues to maintain that the increase to two full-time
city court judges is unnecessary and that the caseload of the Watertown
city court is adequately handled by one full-time and one-part time
judge.

Furthermore, the 2014 change in the law calling for two full time city
court judges in the city of Watertown, means that the city must expand
its court facilities to include an additional court room, at a signif-
icant cost to the city and its taxpaying citizens. This is occurring at
a time when municipal funds are scarce, budgets are tightening, and cost
cutting is taking place in other areas, yet the city is being asked to
shoulder this expense for an increased full time judge that it neither
requested nor needs.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None. New Legislation in 2020.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None to the state. The city is expected to save a significant cost which
would be required to expand its current court facilities for a second
full-time city court judgeship which was never requested by the city and
is unnecessary.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the
date it shall have become a law.

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8302
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the uniform city court act and  the  judiciary  law,  in
   relation to Watertown city court judges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 2104 of the uniform  city  court
 act,  as  amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (d) The number of judges of the city court in each city  shall  be  as
 provided  herein.  Full-time  judgeships are specifically so designated,
 all others are part-time:
    Par.   Name of city
    1    Albany, five full-time;
    2    Amsterdam, one full-time and one part-time;
    3    Auburn, one full-time and one part-time;
    4    Batavia, one full-time and one part-time;
    5    Beacon, one full-time and one part-time;
    6    Binghamton, three full-time;
    7    Buffalo, fourteen full-time;
    8    Canandaigua, one full-time and one part-time;
    9    Cohoes, two;
    10   Corning, one full-time and one part-time;
    11   Cortland, one full-time and one part-time;
    12   Dunkirk, one full-time and one part-time;
    13   Elmira, two full-time;
    14   Fulton, one full-time and one part-time;
    15   Geneva, three;
    16   Glen Cove, two;
    17   Glens Falls, one full-time and one part-time;
    18   Gloversville, one full-time and one part-time;
    19   Hornell, two;
    20   Hudson, two;
    21   Ithaca, two full-time;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16330-01-0

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    22   Jamestown, two full-time;
    23   Johnstown, two;
    24   Kingston, two full-time;
    25   Lackawanna, one full-time and one part-time;
    26   Little Falls, two;
    27   Lockport, two full-time;
    28   Long Beach, two full-time;
    29   Mechanicville, two;
    30   Middletown, two full-time;
    31   Mount Vernon, three full-time and one part-time;
    32   Newburgh, three full-time;
    33   New Rochelle, three full-time;
    34   Niagara Falls, four full-time;
    35   North Tonawanda, one full-time and one part-time;
    36   Norwich, one full-time and one part-time;
    37   Ogdensburg, one full-time and one part-time;
    38   Olean, one full-time and one part-time;
    39   Oneida, one full-time and one part-time;
    40   Oneonta, two;
    41   Oswego, one full-time and one part-time;
    42   Peekskill, one full-time and one part-time;
    43   Plattsburgh, one full-time and one part-time;
    44   Port Jervis, two;
    45   Poughkeepsie, two full-time;
    46   Rensselaer, two;
    47   Rochester, ten full-time;
    48   Rome, two full-time;
    49   Rye, one full-time and one part-time;
    50   Salamanca, two;
    51   Saratoga Springs, two full-time;
    52   Schenectady, four full-time;
    53   Sherrill, one;
    54   Syracuse, nine full-time;
    55   Tonawanda, one full-time and one part-time;
    56   Troy, two full-time and one part-time;
    57   Utica, three full-time;
    58   Watertown, [two] ONE full-time AND ONE
         PART-TIME;
    59   Watervliet, two;
    60   White Plains, four full-time;
    61   Yonkers, seven full-time.
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph 1 of subdivision (e) of section
 2104 of the uniform city court act, as amended by  chapter  455  of  the
 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  by  the  mayor of the city for which the court on which he or she
 will serve has been established, with the advice and consent of the city
 council: part-time city court judge  of  Beacon,  part-time  city  court
 judge of Corning, part-time city court judge of Cortland, part-time city
 court judge of Gloversville, city court judge of Glen Cove who serves in
 the office that on June first, two thousand one was an appointive office
 pursuant  to this subparagraph, city court judge of Jamestown who serves
 in the office that was created during the calendar year commencing Janu-
 ary first, two thousand thirteen, part-time city court judge  of  Olean,
 city  court  judges  of Plattsburgh, city court judge of Port Jervis who
 serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city  court  judge
 of  Port Jervis, city court judges of Rye [and], the city court judge of

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 Salamanca who serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city
 court judge of Salamanca, AND THE PART-TIME CITY COURT JUDGE  OF  WATER-
 TOWN  WHO SERVES IN THE OFFICE THAT WAS FULL-TIME ON MARCH THIRTY-FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE.
   §  3. Section 221-i of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 548 of
 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   § 221-i. Salary of judges of the city courts outside the city  of  New
 York.  Except  as otherwise provided by chapter five hundred sixty-seven
 of the laws of two thousand ten, the annual salary of each  judge  of  a
 city  court outside the city of New York shall be as follows (where this
 section provides different salaries for judicial positions on  the  same
 court having the same title, the greater salary shall be paid the person
 holding  the  position  paid  the  greater salary on the day immediately
 preceding the day on which such salaries took effect):
 
 City                Title
 
 Albany              City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Amsterdam           City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Amsterdam           City Court Judge                   27,200
 Auburn              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Auburn              City Court Judge                   54,400
 Batavia             City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Batavia             City Court Judge                   27,200
 Beacon              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Beacon              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Binghamton          City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Buffalo             Chief Judge (FT)                   115,100
 Buffalo             City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Canandaigua         City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Canandaigua         City Court Judge                   27,200
 Cohoes              City Court Judge                   54,400
 Corning             City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Corning             City Court Judge                   27,200
 Cortland            City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Cortland            City Court Judge                   54,400
 Dunkirk             City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Dunkirk             City Court Judge                   27,200
 Elmira              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Fulton              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Fulton              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Geneva              City Court Judge                   54,400
 Geneva              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Glen Cove           City Court Judge                   54,400
 Gloversville        City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Gloversville        City Court Judge                   27,200
 Glens Falls         City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Glens Falls         City Court Judge                   27,200
 Hornell             City Court Judge                   54,400
 Hornell             City Court Judge                   27,200
 Hudson              City Court Judge                   54,400
 Hudson              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Ithaca              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Jamestown           City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Johnstown           City Court Judge                   54,400
 Johnstown           City Court Judge                   27,200

 S. 8302                             4
 
 Kingston            City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Lackawanna          City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Lackawanna          City Court Judge                   54,400
 Lockport            City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Long Beach          City Court Judge (FT)              118,300
 Little Falls        City Court Judge                   27,200
 Mechanicville       City Court Judge                   27,200
 Middletown          City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Mount Vernon        City Court Judge (FT)              118,300
 Mount Vernon        City Court Judge                   54,400
 Newburgh            City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Niagara Falls       Chief Judge (FT)                   115,100
 Niagara Falls       City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Norwich             City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Norwich             City Court Judge                   27,200
 New Rochelle        City Court Judge (FT)              118,300
 North Tonawanda     City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 North Tonawanda     City Court Judge                   54,400
 Ogdensburg          City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Ogdensburg          City Court Judge                   27,200
 Olean               City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Olean               City Court Judge                   27,200
 Oneida              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Oneida              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Oneonta             City Court Judge                   54,400
 Oneonta             City Court Judge                   27,200
 Oswego              City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Oswego              City Court Judge                   27,200
 Peekskill           City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Peekskill           City Court Judge                   54,400
 Poughkeepsie        City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Plattsburgh         City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Plattsburgh         City Court Judge                   27,200
 Port Jervis         City Court Judge                   54,400
 Rensselaer          City Court Judge                   54,400
 Rensselaer          City Court Judge                   27,200
 Rochester           Chief Judge (FT)                   115,100
 Rochester           City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Rome                City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Rye                 City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Rye                 City Court Judge                   54,400
 Salamanca           City Court Judge                   54,400
 Salamanca           City Court Judge                   27,200
 Saratoga Springs    City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Schenectady         City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Sherrill            City Court Judge                   27,200
 Syracuse            Chief Judge (FT)                   115,100
 Syracuse            City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Tonawanda           City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 Tonawanda           City Court Judge                   54,400
 Troy                City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Troy                City Court Judge                   81,600
 Utica               Chief Judge (FT)                   115,100
 Utica               City Court Judge (FT)              113,900
 Watertown           City Court Judge (FT)              108,800
 WATERTOWN           CITY COURT JUDGE                   27,200

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 Watervliet          City Court Judge                   54,400
 White Plains        City Court Judge (FT)              116,800
 Yonkers             Chief Judge (FT)                   119,500
 Yonkers             City Court Judge (FT)              118,300
   §  4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of this
 act, on the effective date of this  section,  in  Watertown,  an  acting
 full-time  judgeship  shall  be  abolished and replaced with a part-time
 judgeship.  Any person serving in a judgeship abolished by this  section
 shall  continue in service in the part-time judgeship that replaces such
 abolished judgeship hereunder for the remainder of the term of office to
 which he or she was selected as acting city court judge.
   § 5. (a) In the event that the compensation to be paid a  judge  of  a
 city  court, as prescribed by this act or any other provision of law, is
 lower than the compensation being paid such judge immediately  prior  to
 the  effective date of this section, such judge shall, for as long as he
 or she holds the office in which he or she is serving on such  effective
 date,  receive such   higher compensation (plus any increases thereto as
 shall thereafter be provided by law).
   (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this  act,  this  act  shall  not
 extend  or  diminish  any term of judicial office commenced prior to the
 effective date of this section.
   § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S8302

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10514 - Signed by Governor

Jul 22, 2020 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jul 22, 2020

Jul 21, 2020 - Rules Committee Vote

Rules Committee Vote: Jul 21, 2020

Jul 20, 2020 - Judiciary Committee Vote

Judiciary Committee Vote: Jul 20, 2020

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Details

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Patty Ritchie

Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10514 - Signed by Governor

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Details

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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