Bill Text: NY A10540 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the number of judges in family court to 67; adds twelve additional judges to the civil court of the city of New York; adds additional family court judges to Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Nassau, Rensselaer, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - substituted by s9839 [A10540 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10540-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10540 IN ASSEMBLY June 3, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dais) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act and the New York city civil court act, in relation to increasing the number of judges in certain courts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 2 749 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York 4 shall consist of [sixty-three] sixty-seven judges, effective January 5 first, two thousand [twenty-four] twenty-five. There shall be at least 6 one family court judge resident in each county of the city of New York. 7 § 2. Section 102-a of the New York city civil court act is amended by 8 adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows: 9 2-b. Twelve additional judges of the civil court of the city of New 10 York shall be elected in and from the residents of the following coun- 11 ties in the indicated numbers: from the county of New York, three; from 12 the county of Bronx, three; from the county of Kings, three; and from 13 the county of Queens, three. Such additional judges shall receive the 14 same compensation as the existing judges of the civil court of the city 15 of New York and shall be elected countywide within the city of New York. 16 § 3. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new 17 subdivision (x) to read as follows: 18 (x) There shall be an additional family court judge for each of the 19 following counties: Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Rensse- 20 laer, Rockland and Westchester. Moreover, there shall be two additional 21 family court judges from the county of Suffolk and there shall be two 22 additional family court judges from the county of Nassau. The compen- 23 sation of each such additional family court judge shall be the same as 24 the compensation paid to each existing family court judge in such county 25 or, if there is no separately-elected family court judge in such county, 26 the same as the compensation paid to a judge of the county court in such 27 county. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15840-02-4A. 10540 2 1 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 2 the positions created by sections two and three of this act shall be 3 filled by election at the November 5, 2024 election, for a term to 4 commence on the first day of January, 2025, as if such vacancy occurred 5 on the effective date of this act. Party nominations shall be made as 6 provided for in section 6-116 and 6-158 of the election law, and the 7 independent nominations shall be made as provided for by subdivision ten 8 of section 6-158 of the election law.
