Senate Bill S1944

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the fourteenth judicial district

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee

  • 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-S1944 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6134
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§70, 140 & 140-a, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9397, A10088

2025-S1944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the fourteenth judicial district which shall consist of the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland.

2025-S1944 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1944
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- 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 creating a  fourteenth
   judicial district
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 70 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter  690
 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   §  70.  Judicial  departments.  The  state is hereby divided into four
 judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties
 embraced within the first and twelfth  judicial  districts;  the  second
 department  shall  consist  of  the counties embraced within the second,
 ninth,  tenth,  eleventh  [and],  thirteenth  AND  FOURTEENTH   judicial
 districts;  the  third department shall consist of the counties embraced
 within the third,  fourth  and  sixth  judicial  districts;  the  fourth
 department  shall  consist  of  the  counties embraced within the fifth,
 seventh and eighth judicial districts.
   § 2. The opening paragraph and the  ninth  undesignated  paragraph  of
 section  140  of  the judiciary law, the opening paragraph as amended by
 chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and the ninth undesignated paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter 10 of the laws of 1948, are amended and a new four-
 teenth undesignated paragraph is added to read as follows:
   The  state  is  hereby  divided  into  [thirteen]  FOURTEEN   judicial
 districts,  pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth
 article of the  constitution,  which  districts  shall  be  arranged  as
 follows:
   The  ninth judicial district shall consist of the [counties] COUNTY of
 Westchester[, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland];
   THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT SHALL  CONSIST  OF  THE  COUNTIES  OF
 PUTNAM,  DUTCHESS, ORANGE, AND ROCKLAND. THE CREATION OF SUCH FOURTEENTH
 DISTRICT SHALL NOT AFFECT OR IMPAIR THE RIGHTS,  PRIVILEGES  OR  COMPEN-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03502-01-5

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