Bill Text: NY A03536 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates filing fees for wills filed for safekeeping in the surrogate's court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A03536 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03536-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3536

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court  procedure  act,  in  relation  to
          eliminating certain will filing fees

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section  2402  of  the  surrogate's  court
     2  procedure  act,  as amended by section 30 of part J of chapter 62 of the
     3  laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     4    9. For filing:
     5                                                                  Fee Rate
     6  (i)   a demand for trial by jury in any  proceeding,  SCPA
     7          502 .................................................... $150.00
     8  (ii)  objections to the probate of a will SCPA 1410 ............  150.00
     9  (iii) a note of issue in any proceeding ........................   45.00
    10  (iv)  objection  or  answer  in  any  action or proceeding
    11          other than probate .....................................   75.00
    12  (v)   [a will for safekeeping pursuant to section 2507  of
    13          this  act  except that the court in any county may
    14          reduce or dispense with such fee .......................   45.00
    15  (vi)]  a bond, including any additional bond:
    16          less than $10,000 ......................................   20.00
    17          $10,000 and over .......................................   30.00
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00475-01-3