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Senate Bill S6492

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the number of judges in family court

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2023-S6492 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §§121 & 131, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S7467

2023-S6492 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.

2023-S6492 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6492 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6492
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg-
   es in family court
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
 365 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New  York
 shall  consist  of [sixty] SEVENTY-TWO judges[, effective January first,
 two thousand twenty-three]. There shall be at  least  one  family  court
 judge resident in each county of the city of New York.
   §  2.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
 subdivision (w) to read as follows:
   (W) THERE SHALL BE TWO ADDITIONAL FAMILY  COURT  JUDGES  FOR  EACH  OF
 WESTCHESTER  AND  ROCKLAND COUNTIES AND AN ADDITIONAL FAMILY COURT JUDGE
 FOR EACH OF ERIE AND NIAGARA COUNTIES. THE  COMPENSATION  OF  EACH  SUCH
 ADDITIONAL FAMILY COURT JUDGE SHALL BE THE SAME AS THE COMPENSATION PAID
 TO EACH EXISTING FAMILY COURT JUDGE IN THE COUNTY FOR WHICH IT IS ESTAB-
 LISHED.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on immediately, provided, however,
 that the positions created by section two of this act shall be filled by
 election at the November 8, 2023 election, for a term to commence on the
 first day of January, 2024, as if such vacancy occurred on the effective
 date of this act.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09493-01-3

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