Bill Text: NY A00272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides counsel appointed in the supreme court or surrogate's court for certain family matters shall be compensated in the same manner as law guardians in the family court of this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A00272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           272

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  judiciary law, in relation to the fee rates for
          counsel appointed in  the  supreme  court  or  surrogate's  court  for
          certain family matters

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of  section  35  of  the  judiciary  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  41  of  the  laws  of  2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. Whenever the supreme court or a  surrogate's  court  shall  appoint
     5  counsel in a proceeding over which the family court might have exercised
     6  jurisdiction  had  such  action  or  proceeding been commenced in family
     7  court or referred thereto  pursuant  to  law,  and  under  circumstances
     8  whereby,  if  such  proceeding  were pending in family court, such court
     9  would be authorized by section two  hundred  forty-nine  of  the  family
    10  court  act  to  appoint an attorney for the child, such counsel shall be
    11  compensated [in accordance with the  provisions  of  this  section]  and
    12  allowed expenses and disbursements in the same amounts as established by
    13  section two hundred forty-five of the family court act.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to appli-
    15  cations or proceedings pending on or after its effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01013-01-3