Bill Text: NY A09919 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the date of the adjustment of the spousal maintenance cap and increases the amount of such cap.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [A09919 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09919-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9919 IN ASSEMBLY February 22, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judici- ary AN ACT to amend the family court act and the domestic relations law, in relation to the date of adjustment of the spousal maintenance cap The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 412 of the family 2 court act, as added by chapter 269 of the laws of 2015, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (d) "income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-5five] eighty-four thousand dollars of the payor's annual income; 6 provided, however, beginning [January thirty-first] March first, two 7 thousand [sixteen] twenty and every two years thereafter, the income cap 8 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang- 9 es in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as 10 published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor 11 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and 12 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The office of court 13 administration shall determine and publish the income cap. 14 § 2. Subparagraph 5 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 5-a of part B of 15 section 236 of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 269 of 16 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 17 (5) "Income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-18five] eighty-four thousand dollars of the payor's annual income; 19 provided, however, beginning [January thirty-first] March first, two 20 thousand [sixteen] twenty and every two years thereafter, the income cap 21 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang- 22 es in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as 23 published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor 24 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and 25 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The office of court 26 administration shall determine and publish the income cap. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14527-01-8A. 9919 2 1 § 3. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of part B of 2 section 236 of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 269 of 3 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 (4) "Income cap" shall mean up to and including one hundred [seventy-5five] eighty-four thousand dollars of the payor's annual income; 6 provided, however, beginning [January thirty-first] March first, two 7 thousand [sixteen] twenty and every two years thereafter, the income cap 8 amount shall increase by the sum of the average annual percentage chang- 9 es in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as 10 published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor 11 statistics for the prior two years multiplied by the then income cap and 12 then rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The office of court 13 administration shall determine and publish the income cap. 14 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.