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Assembly Bill A8182

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to excusing prospective jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition

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2023-A8182 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §517, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3442

2023-A8182 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excuses prospective jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition that causes such person to be incapable of caring for himself or herself.

2023-A8182 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8182
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to  excusing  prospective
   jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible
   for  the  care  of  a  person with a mental or physical condition that
   causes such person to be incapable of caring for himself or herself
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  (a)  of section 517 of the judiciary law, as
 amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, paragraphs 1 and 2 as amended
 by chapter 380 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph two OR THREE of this
 subdivision, the commissioner of jurors may, in his or  her  discretion,
 on  the  application  of  a  prospective  juror who has been summoned to
 attend, excuse such prospective juror from a part or the  whole  of  the
 time of jury service or may postpone the time of jury service to a later
 day  during  the same or any subsequent term of the court, provided that
 if the prospective juror is a breastfeeding mother and submits with  her
 application  a  note  from  a  physician indicating that the prospective
 juror is breastfeeding, the commissioner shall  excuse  the  prospective
 juror  or  postpone  the  time of jury service. The application shall be
 presented to the commissioner at such time and in such manner as  he  or
 she  shall  require,  except that an application for postponement of the
 initial date for jury service may be made by telephone.
   (2) An application for postponement of jury service shall  be  granted
 hereunder  provided:  (i) such service has not already been postponed or
 excused, (ii) the application is made at such time and in such manner as
 the commissioner of jurors requires, and (iii) the postponement is to  a
 date certain when the court is in session not more than six months after
 the date on which such service otherwise is to commence and such date is
 selected  by  the  prospective  juror, provided  that if the prospective
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07487-02-3

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