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Assembly Bill A8561

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings

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2025-A8561 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8085
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §81.07, Ment Hyg L

2025-A8561 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the timeframe for guardianship hearings to thirty-five days.

2025-A8561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8561
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the timeframe for
   a hearing in guardianship proceedings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b)  of  section  81.07  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of 2004, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. set the date on which the order to show cause is heard no more than
 [twenty-eight] THIRTY-FIVE days from the date  of  the  signing  of  the
 order  to show cause. The court may for good cause shown set a date less
 than [twenty-eight] THIRTY-FIVE days from the date of the signing of the
 order to show cause. The date of the hearing may be adjourned  only  for
 good cause shown;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13040-01-5

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