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Senate Bill S10375

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies the need for expedited relief when seeking an order to show cause

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2025-S10375 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd R2214, CPLR

2025-S10375 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the need for expedited relief when seeking an order to show cause; provides the application shall require why such relief is necessary.

2025-S10375 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10375
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to clari-
   fying the need for expedited relief when  seeking  an  order  to  show
   cause
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (d) of rule 2214 of the civil practice law  and
 rules, as amended by chapter 752 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (d) Order to show cause. The court in a proper case may grant an order
 to show cause, to be served in lieu of a notice of motion, at a time and
 in a manner specified therein. THE PARTY SEEKING THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
 SHALL STATE IN THE APPLICATION WHY SUCH PROCEDURE IS NECESSARY. An order
 to  show  cause against a state body or officers must be served in addi-
 tion to service upon the defendant or respondent state body or  officers
 upon  the  attorney general by delivery to an assistant attorney general
 at an office of the attorney general in the county in which venue of the
 action is designated or if there is no office of the attorney general in
 such county, at the office of the attorney general nearest such county.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15883-01-6

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