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