S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3338
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the scheduling of a
fact finding hearing after the issuance of a temporary order of
protection in family court
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 828 of the family court act is
amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
(C) UPON ISSUING A TEMPORARY ORDER OF PROTECTION, THE COURT SHALL
SCHEDULE A FIRST APPEARANCE FOR PURPOSES OF A FACT-FINDING HEARING NOT
LATER THAN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER THE TEMPORARY ORDER OF PROTECTION IS
ISSUED. IF NO HEARING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS OF THE
ISSUANCE OF THE TEMPORARY ORDER OF PROTECTION, THE TEMPORARY ORDER OF
PROTECTION ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE
EXPIRED AND NO LONGER BE IN EFFECT.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02776-01-5