Senate Bill S1785

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to removing mandatory retirement age for certain judges and justices

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • 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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2023-S1785 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1786
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9231, A10551

2023-S1785 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes mandatory requirement age for certain judges and justices not otherwise required to retire by the state constitution.

2023-S1785 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1785 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1785
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 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 judiciary law, in relation to age limitation on term
   of judicial office
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 23 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 649 of
 the laws of 1945, is amended to read as follows:
   §  23. Age limitation on term of judicial office. No person shall hold
 the office of judge OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, justice  [or  surrogate  of
 any  court,  whether of record or not of record, except a justice of the
 peace of a town or police justice of a village,] OF THE  SUPREME  COURT,
 JUDGE  OF  THE  COURT OF CLAIMS, JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT, JUDGE OF THE
 SURROGATE'S COURT, JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, JUDGE OF A COURT  FOR  THE
 CITY  OF  NEW YORK ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIFTEEN OF ARTICLE VI
 OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION OR JUDGE OF THE  DISTRICT  COURT  longer  than
 until  and including the last day of December next after he OR SHE shall
 be seventy years of age[, except that a judge or justice  in  office  or
 elected or appointed to office at the effective date of this section, as
 to  whom  no provision limiting his right to hold office to the close of
 the year following his attaining the age of seventy years was applicable
 prior to the effective date of this  section,  may  continue  in  office
 during the term for which he was elected or appointed].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03301-01-3

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