Assembly Bill A3305

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts

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  • 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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2025-A3305 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8192
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Add §219-f, amd §212, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10041

2025-A3305 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

2025-A3305 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3305
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BORES, SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the sufficiency of the
   number of judges and justices in districts and courts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 219-f
 to read as follows:
   § 219-F. SUFFICIENCY OF NUMBER OF JUDGES AND JUSTICES IN DISTRICTS AND
 COURTS. IN EXERCISING ITS POWERS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  B  OF  SECTION
 SIX  OF  ARTICLE  SIX OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE LEGISLATURE SHALL SEEK TO
 ENSURE THAT EACH  DISTRICT  AND  COURT  THEREIN  SHALL  HAVE  SUFFICIENT
 NUMBERS  OF  JUDGES  AND JUSTICES TO PERFORM ITS FUNCTIONS IN A THOROUGH
 AND EFFICIENT MANNER, CONSIDERING THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS RESIDING  IN
 A  GIVEN JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE NUMBER OF CASES FILED IN EACH COURT, THE
 COMPLEXITY OF SUCH CASES, THE EXTENT OF DELAYS  IN  THE  DISPOSITION  OF
 CASES  IN  EACH COURT, AND ANY OTHER FACTORS USED BY RECOGNIZED NATIONAL
 OR STATE  AUTHORITIES  WHO  STUDY  THE  PROPER  ALLOCATION  OF  JUDICIAL
 RESOURCES.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (j) of subdivision 1 of section 212 of the judiciary
 law, as added by chapter 156 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (j)  Collect,  compile  and  publish  statistics  and  other data with
 respect to the unified court system IN ORDER TO ASSIST  THE  LEGISLATURE
 IN  PERFORMING  ITS FUNCTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-F
 OF THIS ARTICLE and submit annually, on or before the fifteenth  day  of
 March, to the legislature and the governor a report of [his] SUCH ADMIN-
 ISTRATOR'S  activities  and the state of the unified court system during
 the preceding year.  SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE  RECOMMENDATIONS  ON  THE
 NUMBER  OF  JUDGES  AND JUSTICES NEEDED IN EACH COURT, WHICH RECOMMENDA-
 TIONS SHALL BE ACTED UPON IN SUCH MANNER AS THE LEGISLATURE MAY DIRECT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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