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Senate Bill S10376

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer

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2025-S10376 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Rpld §1019, amd §1023, CPLR

2025-S10376 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repeals certain provisions on the substitution of parties.

2025-S10376 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10376
 
                             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 how
   certain parties shall be designated; and to  repeal  section  1019  of
   such law relating to the substitution of public officers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1019  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules  is
 REPEALED.
   §  2.  Section  1023 of the civil practice law and rules is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 1023. Public body or officer described by  official  title.  When  a
 public  officer,  body, board, commission or other public agency may sue
 or be sued in its official capacity, [it  may]  THAT  PERSON  OR  ENTITY
 SHALL be designated by [its] THE official title, subject to the power of
 the court to require names to be added.
   §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
 actions pending on or after such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15884-01-6

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