S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8457--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 21, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to increasing the value of a small estate THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1301 of the surrogate's court 2 procedure act, as amended by chapter 300 of the laws of 2008, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 1. A small estate is the estate of a domiciliary or a non-domiciliary 5 who dies leaving personal property having a gross value of [$30,000] 6 $100,000 or less exclusive of property required to be set off under EPTL 7 5-3.1 (a) (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). 8 S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06098-03-0