NY State Assembly Bill A10505

Archive: Last Bill Status Via S9466 - Signed by Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 30, 2022	signed chap.365 delivered to governor
Jun 03, 2022	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.670 substituted for a10505
Jun 03, 2022	substituted by s9466
Jun 02, 2022	ordered to third reading rules cal.670 rules report cal.670 reported
Jun 01, 2022	reported referred to rules
May 30, 2022	referred to ways and means

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A10505 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:: S9466
Law Section:: Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §140-a, Judy L; amd §§121 & 131, Fam Ct Act

A10505 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the number of judges in certain judicial districts and the family courts of New York city and Nassau and Saratoga counties.

A10505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10505
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 30, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lavine) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law and the family court act, in  relation
   to  expanding  the  number of judges in certain judicial districts and
   the family court
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 140-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter
 188 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each  judicial  district.
 The  number  of  justices of the supreme court in each judicial district
 shall be as follows:
   1. First district, thirty-eight;
   2. Second district, [fifty] FIFTY-TWO;
   3. Third district, [sixteen] SEVENTEEN;
   4. Fourth district, [thirteen] FOURTEEN;
   5. Fifth district, [eighteen] NINETEEN;
   6. Sixth district, eleven;
   7. Seventh district, [nineteen] TWENTY;
   8. Eighth district, [twenty-seven] TWENTY-EIGHT;
   9. Ninth district, [thirty-one] THIRTY-THREE;
   10. Tenth district, [fifty] FIFTY-ONE;
   11. Eleventh district, [forty-two] FORTY-THREE;
   12. Twelfth district, [twenty-eight] TWENTY-NINE;
   13. Thirteenth district, [seven] NINE.
   No person may serve in the office of  justice  of  the  supreme  court
 unless  he  or she has been admitted to practice law in the state of New
 York for at least ten years as of the  date  he  or  she  commences  the
 duties of office.
   §  2. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 44 of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New  York
 shall  consist of [fifty-six] SIXTY judges, effective January first, two
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16021-02-2

 A. 10505                            2
 
 thousand [fifteen] TWENTY-THREE. There shall  be  at  least  one  family
 court judge resident in each county of the city of New York.
   §  3. Subdivisions (d) and (g) of section 131 of the family court act,
 subdivision (d) as amended by chapter 555 of the laws of 1975 and subdi-
 vision (g) as amended by chapter 572 of the laws of 1984, are amended to
 read as follows:
   (d) In the county of Nassau there shall be [eight] NINE  family  court
 judges  and  the  number  of  such judges now existing in said county is
 hereby increased accordingly.
   (g) There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court  for
 the  counties  of  Oswego  and Sullivan and the compensation payable for
 each such separate office of judge of the family court shall be  twenty-
 five  thousand  dollars per annum. In the county of Saratoga there shall
 be [an] TWO additional family court [judge] JUDGES  and  the  number  of
 such judges now existing in such county is hereby increased accordingly.
 The compensation of such additional family court judge shall be the same
 as the compensation of the existing family court judge in such county.
   §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
 the positions created by section three of this act shall  be  filled  by
 election at the November 8, 2022 election, for a term to commence on the
 first day of January, 2023, as if such vacancy occurred on the effective
 date  of  this  act.  Party nominations shall be made as provided for in
 section 6-116 and 6-158 of the election law, and the  independent  nomi-
 nations  shall  be  made  as  provided for by subdivision ten of section
 6-158 of the election law.

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S9466 - Signed by Governor

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Jun 2, 2022 - floor Vote

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Jun 2, 2022 - Rules committee Vote

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Carrie Woerner

Judy Griffin

John T. McDonald III

Mary Beth Walsh

A10505 (ACTIVE) - Details

A10505 (ACTIVE) - Summary

A10505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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