Bill Text: NY A05263 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5263

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes that guardians ad litem in Westchester county are considered employees for the purposes of representation and indemnification in civil actions resulting from actions taken during the scope of their employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - substituted by s5086 [A05263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05263-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5263

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public officers law, in relation to the employee
          status of certain persons working as guardians ad litem in the  county
          of Westchester

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (w) of subdivision 1 of section 17 of the  public
     2  officers law, as added by chapter 510 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (w)  For  purposes  of this section, the term "employee" shall include
     5  (i) a person certified by the office of court administration and paid by
     6  the city of New York to serve as a guardian ad litem  in  an  action  or
     7  proceeding pending in the housing part of the civil court of the city of
     8  New  York;  or  (ii)  a person certified by the office of court adminis-
     9  tration and paid by the county of Westchester to serve as a guardian  ad
    10  litem  in  a  non-payment,  holdover, or other landlord-tenant action or
    11  proceeding pending in a village, town, city, or other court in the coun-
    12  ty of Westchester.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09568-01-3