Bill Text: NY A00734 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 734 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Exempts parties liable for failure to obey or enforce certain child protective, domestic relations, or domestic violence orders of protection or temporary orders of protection from limited liability provisions pertaining to non-economic loss and providing for limitation of joint liability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A00734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00734-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           734
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, GLICK, PAULIN, ENGLEBRIGHT, ROSENTHAL,
          M. G. MILLER, ORTIZ, TITONE, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.
          RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to exempt-
          ing  parties  liable  for failure to obey or enforce certain orders of
          protection or temporary orders of protection in domestic  violence  or
          domestic  relations  matters from the provisions of article sixteen of
          such law, entitled "limited liability of persons jointly liable"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1602 of the civil practice law and rules is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14.  not  apply  to  any party held liable for claims arising from the
     4  failure to obey or enforce (a) an order of  protection  or  a  temporary
     5  order  of  protection issued or modified pursuant to article four, five,
     6  six, eight, or ten of the family court act, section 530.12 of the crimi-
     7  nal procedure law, section two hundred forty or two hundred fifty-two of
     8  the domestic relations law, or (b) an order of protection  or  temporary
     9  order of protection issued or modified by a court of competent jurisdic-
    10  tion in another state, territorial, or tribal jurisdiction.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02895-01-7