Bill Text: NY A08182 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Excuses prospective jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition that causes such person to be incapable of caring for himself or herself.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A08182 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08182-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8182 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY October 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to excusing prospective jurors from jury service if they are a full-time caregiver responsible for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition that causes such person to be incapable of caring for himself or herself The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 517 of the judiciary law, as 2 amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, paragraphs 1 and 2 as amended 3 by chapter 380 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph two or three of this 5 subdivision, the commissioner of jurors may, in his or her discretion, 6 on the application of a prospective juror who has been summoned to 7 attend, excuse such prospective juror from a part or the whole of the 8 time of jury service or may postpone the time of jury service to a later 9 day during the same or any subsequent term of the court, provided that 10 if the prospective juror is a breastfeeding mother and submits with her 11 application a note from a physician indicating that the prospective 12 juror is breastfeeding, the commissioner shall excuse the prospective 13 juror or postpone the time of jury service. The application shall be 14 presented to the commissioner at such time and in such manner as he or 15 she shall require, except that an application for postponement of the 16 initial date for jury service may be made by telephone. 17 (2) An application for postponement of jury service shall be granted 18 hereunder provided: (i) such service has not already been postponed or 19 excused, (ii) the application is made at such time and in such manner as 20 the commissioner of jurors requires, and (iii) the postponement is to a 21 date certain when the court is in session not more than six months after 22 the date on which such service otherwise is to commence and such date is 23 selected by the prospective juror, provided that if the prospective EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07487-02-3A. 8182 2 1 juror is a breastfeeding mother, the postponement date may be a date 2 certain up to two years after the date on which such service otherwise 3 is to commence. 4 (3) An application to be excused from jury service shall be granted if 5 the prospective juror provides a written statement under penalty of 6 perjury, in a form and manner as the commissioner of jurors shall 7 require, that such prospective juror is a full-time caregiver responsi- 8 ble for the care of a person with a mental or physical condition that 9 causes such person to be incapable of caring for himself or herself. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law.
